While the sun continues to shine, I am not sure I could say
that lessons are shining. I find my nerves have not abated as I can’t seem to
get into the swing of things and I become nervous and forget my lines so to
speak. However this is not stage fright as I enjoy extracting English from the
students.
I feel I have nailed one classroom management
technique – hands up and look around the class. If anyone is struggling with
this easy-on-paper technique, I have realised that the key is to make eye
contact with any student making noise.
Once eye contact is made with the student they realise their culpability.
While I am not suggesting we all go power crazy, it does emit a fleeting sense
of respect between student and teacher.
The school has a great atmosphere with an emphasis on
learning but with fun activities thrown in too. All the teachers in the English department are
very helpful. Other teachers in general
are very friendly and give me an ‘Hola’ in passing despite that fact I am not
the usual teaching staff.
I am not in school today due to exams, but I am busy
thinking about how to incorporate visuals into my lessons and am playing around
with PowerPoint and finding ideas in general which I hope will engage my class.
Also the CIFIRE project rolls on – with presentations to be
given this evening about teaching techniques. So far we have used how to
incorporate the following into lessons: an
activity using a smartphone, a house which made from folding a sheet of A4,
ways to make the textbook more meaningful, blogs and not to mention a host of useful websites
delivering anything from a random name selector
to worksheets/wordsearaches and song lyrics…
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