Tag: Classroom management
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Effective Motivational Strategies: What Makes Your Learners Care and Be Involved as a Facilitator
Effective Motivational Strategies: What Makes Your Learners Care and Be Involved as a Facilitator. What do you think of when you hear the term learner’s motivation? Is it the result of something that the facilitator adds to the equation or something that the learners bring to the situation? The field of human motivation is a…
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How to Create a Good Working Relationship in the Classroom.
How to Create a Good Working Relationship in the Classroom. Rapport is sometimes characterised as a kind of indefinable magic that some teachers manage to create where others fail, and, certainly, you can often detect when it is present within a few seconds of walking into a room: a sense of lively engagement, a roomful…
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How to Maintain Learners’ Interest During Teaching and Learning.
How to Maintain Learners’ Interest During Teaching and Learning. It is absurd to expect all students to be constantly on the edge of their seats, mesmerized by masterful instruction. Students do bring outside distractions into the classroom. Divorces, deaths, infatuations, conflicts, and the normal growing pains can divert the attention of even the most conscientious…
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How to Regain the Attention of Your Learners After an Interruption.
How to Regain the Attention of Your Learners After an Interruption. Quieting a class to gain its attention is a challenge for many teachers. It is perhaps the first routine that should be taught on the first day of school. Most successful teachers develop some form of signal or cue that tells students to stop what…
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How to Minimize Classroom Interruptions.
How to Minimize Classroom Interruptions. Interruptions are the bane of every classroom teacher. Not only is precious class time lost, but so is something even more essential: momentum. A class that is 100% on task suddenly becomes 100% off task as the interruption disrupts everyone’s attention. The teacher must then refocus everyone’s attention back onto…
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How to Effectively Use Humour in the Classroom.
How to Effectively Use Humour in the Classroom. Laughter is good for the soul, the mind, and the body. We can be quite serious about our subject, yet still infuse it with humour. It is a powerful tool that can break the ice and get the listener on your side. Humour recaptures students’ attention and anchors…
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Strategic use of expressions and gestures to help reduce unhelpful or unclear teacher-student communication.
Strategic use of expressions and gestures to help reduce unhelpful or unclear teacher-student communication. With low-level classes, gestures, and expressions add a crucial element to instructions and explanations. They provide visual support that helps learners understand what is being said. They also allow the teacher to say less, which by itself may help to make…
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How to Facilitate an Effective Classroom Discussion.
How to Facilitate an Effective Classroom Discussion. Class discussion is a useful strategy for stimulating critical thinking and encouraging students to reexamine their attitudes. For a discussion to be effective, students must possess some general information about the topic under consideration, unless you are using the discussion as an advance organizer to introduce a new…
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HOW TO MAKE TEACHING AND LEARNING MORE VISUAL.
HOW TO MAKE TEACHING AND LEARNING MORE VISUAL. If learners see the point rather than just hear it, they are more likely to remember it. There are several ways to add visuals to teaching and learning sessions. Some are commonly used while others are less frequently employed. Presentation slides. Content presented by slides can be…
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How to Create a Peaceful Classroom Environment.
How to Create a Peaceful Classroom Environment. The concept of a peaceful classroom should be desired by every teacher. The connotation of the word peace brings up images of happiness and an absence of strife and problems. According to Girard (1995), “A peaceable classroom or school results when the values and skills of cooperation, communication,…
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Effective Seating Arrangements in a Class to Improve Teaching and Learning.
Effective Seating Arrangements in a Class to Improve Teaching and Learning. Some facilitators deliberately assign learners to specific seats for whole-class work, such as listening to the teacher explain a concept. This arrangement may be: Alphabetical order of surname or first name. Age or height. Recent test scores. Gender (all the boys on one side,…
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How to Deal with Serious Behaviour Problems in a Firm, Fair and Clear Way.
How to Deal with Serious Behaviour Problems in a Firm, Fair and Clear Way. Is it right to respond to difficult children by treating them as if they were in an army, shouting at them, bullying them, using size and strength to exert power and dominate? If their behaviour problems have roots in violent or…
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HOW TO EFFECTIVELY TEACH LARGE CLASSES.
HOW TO EFFECTIVELY TEACH LARGE CLASSES. There is no law that says that the larger a class, the poorer the learning must be, though many parents, teachers and students would argue that this must be the case. Similarly, there is no guarantee that small classes must lead to more effective learning. Of course, the better…
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How to Manage and Assist Mixed-Level Classes for Maximum Results.
How to Manage and Assist Mixed-Level Classes for Maximum Results. One of the most common complaints from teachers is that their class has too wide a range of levels. And if; the facilitator goes at the speed of the faster students; she loses the weaker ones. she/he goes at the speed of the weaker ones,…
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