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Classroom ManagementThe vital key to good classroom management comes from the ESL teacher's attitude and decision to earn the love and respect of your students. If students like you and respect you they will naturally behave well and pay attention because they want to please you. So how can an ESL teacher make this happen?
Save yourself the humiliation of trying to be the students' best buddy, they will probably laugh at you behind your back. Be their mentor. You are someone they can trust and come to for help.
The children will trust you if you are consistent, clear in establishing the rules from day one and consistent in applying them.
At the same time as being firm and fair in class find opportunities to talk to your ESL students informally outside of class time. The children will feel special because you have taken some of your time to speak to them. If the children feel that you know them, you know what they like, what they can't wait to do when they get home and so on, they will truly feel that you care about them.
Never spend a full class up at the board or at the front. Instead, perhaps during an ESL writing task, take some time to sit in next to different students and ask them how they are, ask them if they have anything in particular they would like to ask you that they have not understood, or just tell them that they are doing well and put a couple of ticks on their work.
Effective classroom management is the foundation of any good lesson. The proper timing of your lessons is another area that ESL teachers need to be aware of. Timing is everything and if you come into your lesson with too much or too little planned, you're going to have a hard time. Proper management of your in-lesson time is essential to maintaining a good class.
Children respond far better to praise than criticism, which only makes them shrivel up inside and feel worthless. Never ever, ever use destructive criticism.There is so much good that you can do as an ESL teacher by increasing your students' self-esteem through praise and encouragement.
Tapping into all the different ESL learning styles will help you reach all students in your class.An advantage to ESL classroom games is that they engage and motivate the children.It is important to choose appropriate games for your class size and classroom configuration.
Students have varying levels of commitment and by discussing course objectives, expectations and homework policies at the beginning of each new class can help bring this issue to the surface. Adult learners who feel this is too demanding can make their objections known during this discussion.Do not go back and repeat information from previous lessons for individuals. If you need to do review, make sure that the review is done as a class activity with the objective of helping the entire class.
Ultimately, you must find your own personal style in teaching but there are many proven techniques and strategies for good classroom management. Of course, you must comply with the rules of the school you work for. Your school should always be your ally and not your foe.
