“Help me, this class is a drag!!

”
Classroom dynamics
 Teachers or students?
He talks very quickly so
I don’t like the book, it’s I can’t understand him
really boring

I don’t feel confident

There’s no subject enough to talk, I feel I
which can make a lot of
motivate them mistakes

They don’t
talk at all They don’t pay
attention most of the
They just use their time
mothertongue
Are we managing
the classroom
dynamics
properly?

How can we
improve them?
 INTERACTION
We must benefit from the
advantages that every natural
interaction has, and bring it into
the classroom

Real communication
 INTERACTION

Emotional
language
interaction interaction
EMOTIONAL INTERACTION
• The teacher creates a climate of trust
and respect.
• The teacher encourages communication
among all members in the group
(teacher – student / student – student).
• Mistakes are seen as an essential part of
the learning process.
 LANGUAGE INTERACTION
• Integrating interactive activities in order
to train competences that we use in our
mother tongue.
• Encouraging the cooperation learning:
work in pairs and small groups. The
students help each other as well as work
and reflect together.
NEGOTIATION
The teacher gives
an important role
to the student and
hands the reins of
his learning.
Rock against boredom
 NEGOTIATION
• Establishing classroom rules negotiated
with the students.
• Students are integrated in the decisions
related to the aims selection.
• The student can also choose contents
and activities.
• The teacher accepts suggestions and
ideas from the students.
 CLASSROOM PLANNING

• If there is no assortment, the interest and

motivation can be slight.
• The teacher must be flexible in order to
adapt himself to each situation. He has to
be able to improvise in some cases.
• The activities sequence must follow a
common aim.
DIVERSITY
 CONCLUSION
• The teacher creates an atmosphere of trust and encourages
fellowship and respect.
• Classroom rules are to be established and negotiated among all
members in the group.
• Cooperation learning is to be encouraged by the teacher in
order to create real communication among students.
• Suggestions by students are to be borne in mind by the
teacher.
• Students must be convinced that Mistakes are normal in their
learning process. They must not be corrected all the time.
• Control classroom management/class planning: A balanced
blend of techniques, activities and materials is necessary to
avoid yawning and boredom.
• Improvise when the situation requires it!
 Let’s solve these problems
He talks very quickly so
I don’t like the book, it’s I can’t understand him
really boring

I don’t feel confident

There’s no subject enough to talk, I feel I
which can make a lot of
motivate them mistakes

They don’t
talk at all They don’t pay
attention most of the
They just use their time
mothertongue
 Thank You

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of Happyness, by Chiara Buldrini; Fish on that street, by Rock against
boredom), Pixabay)

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 Bibliography

• A. Giovannini et alii, 1996, Profesor en acción 1: El

proceso de aprendizaje
• Nunan, David 1989, Designing Tasks for the
Communicative Classroom
• Orta, Antonio,Las
dinámicas para la interacción Genuina en la clase de ELE