Teach English in Maqiao Zhen - Shanghai Shi

Clasroom managementFor new teachers, classroom management is one of the most difficult tasks as the have yet to hit their stride and understand their style of teaching. While all teachers? dream to inspire and motivate teachers, it?s difficult to accomplish straight away. Most first time teachers haven?t learned the near artful skill of organizing, maintaining order, and managing a classroom. There are many factors to a successful and well-behaved classroom as well as to a unmanageable classroom where the students are on the pushing end of the tilt of authority. While most students will test the envelope with the teacher, especially the foreign teacher, it is the foreign teachers duty to push back with just the right amount of force and skill. The students shouldn?t be able to use the teacher as a doormat, but they shouldn?t be so terrified of the teacher, they resent him or her. The balance is fine, and it definitely takes practice and a mixture of good and bad students. Teachers should always be patient with the students while they are acquiring language, but they have to know when to put an end to the antics. The presence of the teacher in the classroom is very important: how they use their body, how they stand, if they move around the classroom and the tone/level of their voice. Students will not respond to a teacher that is forcing english down their throats, hovering over them and keeping an eye on their every move, and becoming angry when the children are acting like children. To some degree, children are expected to play and have fun. After reading many articles on classroom management and developing your persona in the classroom, some of the common ?rules? for the first teacher experimenting with finding their way of classroom management are, in no particular order: use the board effectively, build the students confidence rather than putting them down, the manner in which instructions are to be given, establish a rapport with your students, and to create a punishment/reward system (this is the case if the school does not already have one in place). Across the board, one of the most important factors to a successful classroom is establishing a rapport with your students. The students will be more receptive to a teacher who shows they care and want to be there, rather than someone who is passive, often exasperated, brings outside issues into the classroom, and picks favorites in the classroom that they treat differently than the other students. For establish a rapport, the most common tip to get to know your students by learning, knowing, and using their names. As well as using the beginning of the class to ask the students how they?re doing, how their days went, what they did, what they are planning to do, and many more topics. Not only is this a great way to get to know your students, but it?s also a great way for the students to practice their english. The next most important way to manage your classroom was to create a punishment/reward system. This way the students can self-check as well as check the other students. Let?s say Tom always distracts the class and the other students don?t like it. If Tom is creating a disturbance the students can help Tom to keep all of his smiley faces or to stay out of detention. It?s always important however, that the students are disciplined fairly and adequately as well as the students are rewarded?this should all be done with consistence while not favoring any of the students. The discipline/punishment system can also help the students to boost the students? confidence (this can go the other way as well, and the teacher must be careful not to let the students? confidence decline) because the students will be more willing to participate in class and to keep their misbehaviors to a minimum. Next, the overall presence of the teacher in the classroom is very important. This is a combination of the teacher?s emotional presence, physical presence, and their use of the classroom. The image the teacher presents is very important because the students are more receptive than we realize. The teacher should walk around in an open welcoming manner, not have a frown or have the look of hating their job on their faces, and they should be engaging towards the students. With the application of these steps, the teacher can become more confident and effective in their classroom. The students will be more willing to listen to the teacher when he or she ask them to do something as well as.