LESSON 2 & 3: CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT

Objective: To improve management skills.

-Warm up: Who will win the ticket to enter our classroom management competition? The best manager you have ever thought of.

Task 1: On your own, think back to your school days & identify one of your best classes. Now write down a few notes in answer to the following questions:

1. How was the classroom arranged?
2. How was the class managed?
3. What were three things you liked about that classroom?
4. What were the main problems in that classroom?
5. How were they handled by the teacher?
6. How did you feel as a learner in that classroom?
7. Describe some of the learning activities in that classroom?
8. What were the rules & procedures in the classroom?
9. Why was that classroom so different from others?
10. Was there any misbehaviour in your classroom? If so, describe it?
11. Why were those behaviours considered “misbehaviours”

 

 

 

 

 Principled learning in the classroom

1. DIAGNOSIS

To identify learners' strengths and weaknesses.

Tools: Observation, diagnosis tests or reading the reports of the previous year.
To understand this concept we did a game and watch a video.

1. Game: mirror. The objective of this game was to Aims: To develop concentration & observation skills, empathy, to work on non-verbal communication, to anticipate another’s thinking and action

 

2. How good are you at observing? Video invisible gorilla

  

2. TREATMENT

Multiple treatment as language learning is a complex issue.

- Learning experiences designed to target learner needs exposed by diagnostic assessment.

- Learning strategies.

The importance of input

- The importance of output.

- Strategic investment.

At the end of the lesson, some students had a paper with some ideas about classroom management and we had to move around the classroom and explained the content. Then, we had to ask them some questions to know if the understood all the information. If they knew it, the obtained an invisible ticket.

3. ASSESMENT

CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT 2

 The next day we had to explain in front of the class about the different points of classroom management.

Then we made a game: we had to make two groups. The information of classroom management was on the table, one of the student had the function of teacher and guide the activity.  The activity was like a debate, two students talking about the topic and explaining the other about the content.

PROBLEMS WITH TEACHING, POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS: All of them pretend to help the student in the learning process.
 

-SCAFFOLDING

-VYGOTSKY (ZPD)
-TEACHING STRATEGIES: games, simulations, critical thinking, cooperative learning, mobile learning, problem-based learning.

-HOW TO IMPROVE YOUR VOICE?

 

At the end of the class we did a game: TRUTH/ LYING. Once we knew everything about classroom management, each group had to write 5 statement true and false in order to discover if the students had understood the information clearly.