peppermint
Joined: 13 May 2003
Location: traversing the minefields of caddishness.
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 Posted: Wed May 19, 2004 10:44 pm Post subject: teaching elementary school |
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These questions were put to me in another forum here, but I decied it deserved it's own thread, and I'm decidedly no guru.
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What discipline techniques have you found worked most effectively for you with that many students and almost support from home room teachers?
Also, how do you structure your lessons?
Do you do any group or pair work or games or get students to speak individually (all things I have found to be difficult to integrate in elementary school) or mostly just have to stick to choral repepition through most of the class to get them to talk?
how much do you use the national curriculum and cd (I have also found to be useless and boring most of the time)?
Finally how do you deal with translation issues when you want to explain something? |
Discipline- when I want the kids to be quiet, I stand with my hands on my head, and the kids know that's their cue to be quiet and do the same. If they are REALLY Loud, I just yell "YAH!" at the top of my lungs. ( missed my true calling as a drill sergeant) I keep a ruler close at hand, and while I'd never smack a kid- I will smack their desk, and they don't know that I wouldn't smack them.
Structure- I try to open the class with a song, a little review, new material, then a game or activity to reinforce the ideas. I've been trying to sneak in some writing activities too.
Group work I do use it- to a limited extent. I'm lucky in that I have my own classroom, and currently have the desks arranged into tables for this kind of thing. I find that rearranging the members of groups can be very effective.
The curriculum- I recently got asked to follow the national curriculum exactly, but if you've seen the teacher's guide , you know how absurd the idea is. (85 to 90% in Korean). I use it for the main ideas of each lesson, but gear it up a little for some classes.
I rarely do the games as written cause they're boriing. I do off the wall things instead like let a kid hide my watch and get the others to help me find it. or have them give me directions around the classroom ( which became a town, when I gave building flashcards to each table)
I haven't run into any major translation issues with the kids yet- knock on wood. |
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