Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Classroom management:
1. Rapport
Building a good relationship;
Using names
Remembering personal details;
Politeness;
Don’t overpraise;
Involve everybody
2. Boardwork
Time lines;
Grammar/vocabulary clarification;
Students need to see the written language
Whiteboard plan: do it in advance; where do you put what. Organization: Ex: split the
board in 3: agenda, main *you can erase here*, and new vocab that comes up
3. Monitoring
Keep moving, keep a central position in class
Spread your attention
Helping
Error correction for feedback later, after the activity/end of the lesson
4. Seating/grouping:
5. Teacher talk
Communicative approach
6. Pace/timing
7. Instructions:
Natural, graded language
Give handout after instruction
Lead-in: brainstorming
Test
Teach
T1
T2
Intransitive: ?
Transitive:?
Form: writing it on the WB, number, part of speech
Day 4
-Reading vs listening: when we listen we can’t go back. We have more time to process written info.
-No reading in the classroom
-sts don’t know a word, until they produce it. It’s never enough only to “know” it.
Gist
Detailed
Scanning
Mime is also
Reading alone
Mention the grouping/pairing