Classroom arrangement
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Classroom arrangement
Hi! I'm teaching in an elementary public school in Korea. The principal wants to give me a room (about twice the size of the regular classrooms) just for English teaching. The school supposedly has a lot of money to spend for the English program, and they want me to find information on well equipped classrooms. I can't find any information or pictures. We're thinking about putting in a language lab. I don't know - so many possibilities. Any ideas?
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joshua2004
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I have a friend who is opening a school and he is empoying this idea: Basically open a classroom as if it were a traditional english classroom. Not "traditional" as 2 whippin's for not pronouncing something right. But have a calender where everyday you read the day, month, year, record the weather. Think of the things that one might do in regular instruction, but adapt it to an EFL program. You listen to stories, and so on.
I always do that kind of routine stuff (I think it's important), but it's the principal and vice principal who are pushing me to come up with something more for the room. They'll already be putting in a computer with a big screen TV. Besides maybe dividing the room into different sections, I don't know what else they think I can come up with. I agree with you - just put some nice things on the walls and teach like I always have been.
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Sally Olsen
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What an opportunity! I envy you. We developed an English room for a school in Mongolia and one in Greenland. We ordered magazines that were age appropriate and they arrived every month and were displayed on slanted shelves that showed the front page. We had English books and textbooks in bookcases. We had a karioke machine in a corner, computer in another corner, tape recorder in another corner and TV/DVD or video player in the fourth corner. Each corner could be shut off the rest of the room with heavy curtains hanging from the roof - velvet shuts out the sound really well. There was a supply box with everything you would need to make posters or help with making your portfolios - felt pens, glue, poster board, coloured paper, stapler, scissors and so on. There were work stations for listening, writing, reading (a nice couch and pillows). We had an English bulletin board, both in the classroom and in the hall to show student's work. We ordered a mass of posters for all the themes we studied and had puppets for the younger children, flash cards, games, comics and old magazines that could be cut up and labeled. The English room was open during breaks for the children to visit but they had to speak English while in the room. We played their music if it was English. They could watch videos if they were English and so on. We changed the decorations according to the seasons and holidays so had Valentine's, Easter, St. Pat's Day, Earth Day, Woman's Day, Man's Day, and so on with decorations and crafts available to do around those ideas. There were storage bins for the decorations.
Last edited by Sally Olsen on Fri Apr 29, 2005 11:01 pm, edited 1 time in total.