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williamsabia
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 Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2011 5:47 am Post subject: Best discipline strategies for Hagwons |
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| I have worked as a substitute and teacher assistant for the last four years at a high school in USA. My discipline strategies are to speak with the students as if they were adults and try to get them to see their immaturity, which worked sometimes and others not. I also like to stare them down and if they are disruptive call their behavior out in front of the class to get peer pressured into behaving. Basically, I have learned how to control (as much as possible) rowdy teenagers. What can I do with young learners like kindy-4th grade? Does anyone have suggestions that may work to calm down or to gain respect from these little ones? |
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whiteshoes
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| Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2011 6:38 am Post subject: |
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Play "Teacher Says." This is what you know as Simon Says.
Play it the first day, and play it regularly. I think it's the single best game you can play with elementary kids. You can teach nouns and verbs at the same time, "Stand up and point at the white board....TEACHER DIDN'T SAY!!!"
When the class get's too rowdy, go this route.
1. Teacher says sit down.
2. Teacher says open your eyes.
3. Teacher says close your eyes.
4. Teacher say close your mouth.
5. Teacher says open your eyes.
6. Teacher say open your book.
Then change your tone of voice from more playful to serious, and re-start the lesson. |
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fezmond
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| Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2011 7:00 am Post subject: |
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if they're older kindy - 6/7 year olds - tell them that they have to go to the 'baby class' where the 5 year olds reside.
we have a 'thinking chair' where eyes are closed and facing a wall. any more problems and they are threatened with the baby class, though never goes that far. |
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swinewho
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| Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2011 5:06 pm Post subject: |
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Get a load of missing children posters and put them on your wall.
If a child is behaving badly point at one of them and ask if they want to end up like little min ju 
Of course i'm joking!
One very good way of dealing with low level disruption is to ignore it and to focus on the good behaviour/work/children in the class.
Walk up to the good kid and praise them, go over the top with it/candy/stickers (although praise works the best) - if your Korean is good, on the spot call one of the good kids parents and tell them what a smart kid they have ect (your boss will love this as well)
Meanwhile the bad kid sit's there getting more pissed off! They (he) might try to esculate the situation - the key is to keep calm, smile - never show weakness - shouting/screaming is a sign of weakness.
This method takes a bit of skill - but in the medium/long term works the best. Happy kids learn - unhappy kids don't (well not as quickly anyway!) |
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murmanjake
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| Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2011 7:17 pm Post subject: |
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| fezmond wrote: |
if they're older kindy - 6/7 year olds - tell them that they have to go to the 'baby class' where the 5 year olds reside.
we have a 'thinking chair' where eyes are closed and facing a wall. any more problems and they are threatened with the baby class, though never goes that far. |
This is a great one.
I always ask them, "how old are you?" They get really ashamed when you make them realize they're acting younger than they think they are. Works especially well for those mommy-imitating 6/7 year-olds.
Also a short exile does wonders. "Get Out!" spoken authoritatively can be a real shocker. Most of the time you don't even have to follow through, assuming you've done it once or twice already. |
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2011 7:36 pm Post subject: Re: Best discipline strategies for Hagwons |
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| williamsabia wrote: |
| I have worked as a substitute and teacher assistant for the last four years at a high school in USA. My discipline strategies are to speak with the students as if they were adults and try to get them to see their immaturity, which worked sometimes and others not. I also like to stare them down and if they are disruptive call their behavior out in front of the class to get peer pressured into behaving. Basically, I have learned how to control (as much as possible) rowdy teenagers. What can I do with young learners like kindy-4th grade? Does anyone have suggestions that may work to calm down or to gain respect from these little ones? |
Don't bother.
Little ones are not small versions of big kids.
It is all about the methods and timing. (their attention span is about 10 minutes and they need comprehensible input (songs, chants, TPR, PHYSICAL task based activity/games). Don't stress over output (language) production. They will produce when they are ready.
1-2 minutes to settle after the bell.
2-3 minutes for some motivational thing (song, video, activity).
10-15 minutes for the primary part of your lesson.
15 minutes for a reinforcement activity.
5 minutes for cleanup and some closing activity.
Keep it bright, light, colorful and active. Behavior issues largely disappear if they don't have time to get bored and if the input is comprehensible rather that just English "noise" to them.
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Jotun_Symph
Joined: 21 Aug 2011
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| Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2011 7:22 am Post subject: Re: Best discipline strategies for Hagwons |
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| williamsabia wrote: |
| I have worked as a substitute and teacher assistant for the last four years at a high school in USA. My discipline strategies are to speak with the students as if they were adults and try to get them to see their immaturity, which worked sometimes and others not. I also like to stare them down and if they are disruptive call their behavior out in front of the class to get peer pressured into behaving. Basically, I have learned how to control (as much as possible) rowdy teenagers. What can I do with young learners like kindy-4th grade? Does anyone have suggestions that may work to calm down or to gain respect from these little ones? |
I'm a firm believer in the military strategy for younger kids. Get the class to discipline itself. Set goals for the entire class that, when reached, will result in positive consequences. Example: I used to write "GAME" on the board. If students misbehaved, no matter who it was, I would erase one letter at a time. No letters left after the lesson= no game/fun time. By the time there was only one letter left, I had the good students really angry at the ones misbehaving, so much that they would settle down pretty quickly.
The logic behind this is peer pressure. Sometimes you get students who truly don't care about any punishment that you as an English teacher can possibly mead out to them. But it's rare to find the student who can withstand having 10 or 12 classmates angry at him/her because he/she misbehaved and took away their fun time.
Of course, the downside of this is that all of the really really good students get let down when they don't get their game. I tried to find someway to reward their behavior individually to keep their spirits up(stickers, point system, etc.) |
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