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This unit is about Classroom management. It explains how a class can learn effectively by using eye contact, gestures, a teacher's tone of voice, using student's names correctly. It also teaches the pros and cons of grouping students when using whole-class grouping, of students working on their own, pairwork and groupwork. The importance of the way a teacher organize the position of students which depends on the space available, the type of chairs and tables, the students' age, their nationality and their personality; how to consider various issues and type of activity when making seating arrangements. How a teacher's position and movement be during language presentation, giving instructions, reading activities, activation stage, controlled practice and checking work in progress, how to minimize turning your back to students during board-work, the advantages and disadvantages of teacher talk time (which should be reduced to a minimum). Very few resources can provide a comprehensible language input as the teacher. He/she is the source of natural, correct English that's specifically geared to a student's ability so TTT is also important. This unit also shows how to establish rapport with students and the important topic of maintaining discipline, the reasons for misbehavior, how to prevent them and how to respond to them. So this unit covers all the aspects of classroom management.
