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ChrisGuy
Joined: 19 Oct 2009
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 Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2010 8:13 am Post subject: Your Favourite Teaching Tool |
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When teaching, what techniques or objects help you teach the most effectively?
Im going to be teaching children between the age of 6-12 and thinking that some kind of teddy or fluffy toy will be very useful ('teddy likes this', 'teddy dislikes that' 'teddy is above this', 'teddy is blow that' for example) and also for the purpose of discipline, star stickers (silver star for good work and behaviour, gold for exceptional ect)... im mostly thinking of star stickers because when I was a pee-wee id do anything for a gold sticker!
Do you think these ideas are skewed, and what works well for you? |
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schwa
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
Location: Yap
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| Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2010 8:44 am Post subject: |
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| Kids above kindergarten level will find your stuffed animal approach totally condescending & will respond accordingly. Big rethink needed. |
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ChrisGuy
Joined: 19 Oct 2009
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| Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2010 9:15 am Post subject: |
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| schwa wrote: |
| Kids above kindergarten level will find your stuffed animal approach totally condescending & will respond accordingly. Big rethink needed. |
Fair doos. This is why im asking. What do you sugest then? What will work best? |
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mistermasan
Joined: 20 Sep 2007
Location: 10+ yrs on Dave's ESL cafe
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| Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2010 9:18 am Post subject: |
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| treat them like they are smart. offer them a constantly changing spectrum of stimulation. most foreign teachers in asia are but "icing" on the cake. the local teachers have built the cake, you just just gotta top it off. with a flourish. or several. |
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Fishead soup
Joined: 24 Jun 2007
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2010 4:44 pm Post subject: |
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| Laptop computer with good internet connection. With this you can download Powerpoints and Flash games plus pop songs and youtube. |
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lukas
Joined: 22 Aug 2009
Location: Bucheon
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| Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2010 4:50 pm Post subject: |
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| Fishead soup wrote: |
| Laptop computer with good internet connection. With this you can download Powerpoints and Flash games plus pop songs and youtube. |
I agree. This is exactly what I do at my public school. |
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toadkillerdog
Joined: 11 Nov 2009
Location: Daejeon. ROK
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| Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2010 4:51 pm Post subject: |
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| A "love stick". |
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some waygug-in
Joined: 25 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2010 5:29 pm Post subject: |
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If you don't have internet in the classroom, you will have your work cut out for you.
It depends if it is a PS job or a hagwan and it will also depend on what the management expects of you.
A good set of picture cards can go a long way and can be used in many ways.
There's a lot of free resources on the internet. Scroll down on the following site:
http://www.englishbanana.com/ |
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Fishead soup
Joined: 24 Jun 2007
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2010 5:38 pm Post subject: |
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| some waygug-in wrote: |
If you don't have internet in the classroom, you will have your work cut out for you.
It depends if it is a PS job or a hagwan and it will also depend on what the management expects of you.
A good set of picture cards can go a long way and can be used in many ways.
There's a lot of free resources on the internet. Scroll down on the following site:
http://www.englishbanana.com/ |
You can still download, Baam, Jeopardy, What's the Wordle, and Last Man Standing off EFL Classroom 2.0. |
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jiberish
Joined: 17 Jul 2006
Location: The Carribean Bay Wrestler
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| Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2010 6:38 pm Post subject: |
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I use the kids as tools 
They are my puppets and they love it.
Give one a candy "(name) is happy"
flick one on the head "(name) is angry)
BWAAAAAA "(name) is scared"
they are easy to pick up too |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| a loud voice and a hearty laugh |
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nomad-ish
Joined: 08 Oct 2007
Location: On the bottom of the food chain
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| Posted: Thu Feb 04, 2010 1:20 am Post subject: |
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my smart board  |
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ABC KID
Joined: 14 Sep 2007
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| Posted: Thu Feb 04, 2010 1:38 am Post subject: |
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| some waygug-in wrote: |
If you don't have internet in the classroom, you will have your work cut out for you.
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Sorry but that is utter nonsense! Teachers managed for centuries without the internet and had it never been invented would still be doing so now.
Of course, the internet has many advantages but for some teachers it is just giving them a comfort zone. I am sure there are some teachers here that have never produced original lessons or resources in their life and have just relied on the internet the whole time.
However, I believe for someone aspiring to be a good teacher, more can be learned from one's own experiences, experiments and honest reflections than from Yahoo or Google searches and ready-to-go websites. Discussing experiences and ideas with other teachers either within one's own place of employment or at various workshops and conferences has obvious advantages too.
Oh and did I forget to mention the benefits of books as sources of knowledge and inspiration? |
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schwa
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
Location: Yap
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| Posted: Thu Feb 04, 2010 2:21 am Post subject: |
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Books, seconded.
The OP isnt explicit but it sounds like a hagwon position. With smaller classes, especially ages 6 to 9, you can get so much mileage out of regular story readings. You can introduce lots of different stories but the kids will clamor for rereadings of the classics that many of us started learning english from: Dr Seuss, Sendak, Curious George, etc.
Smartboards, bah. Give me a dumb board. Chalk or marker, doesnt matter, you can do a lot of creative attention-getting stuff with words & drawings on a board. These kids are already bombarded with pixels, offer them a warmer more human-interactive medium.
Strong voice & ready smile, also seconded. Kids respond best to cheerful confidence in a teacher. Someone above also said treat them as smart -- perfect advice. Vary your activities & challenge them. Nine times out of ten if your students are constantly acting up either you or your material is boring. |
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ddeubel
Joined: 20 Jul 2005
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