CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT: LARGE CLASSES
PEDAGOGICAL PLANNING
To manage a large group is difficult but not impossible. The video suggests starting the level, course or year by having a diagnostic test in which you as teacher will know the students´ need and strengths and then you can prepare your lesson plan easily. Something really important is that we as teacher must not label students as intelligent, fool, etc because that leads to other problems.
When having a big group, something that I have experience is that you can not remember all the students´ name very well, but you must find the way you can do it because if not students may not feel important in the classroom in you do not call them by their names. With a big group, it is recommendable to have groups work and in that way you will rotate your attention to them, I mean you will not be paying attention just to the same students and believe me that will help you to remember their names.
CLASSROOM LEARNING SYSTEM
Here is really important that a teacher uses all his/her creativity to create a nice environment, but how? Well what I could see in the video is that when you change from one activity to another one it has to be smoothly, it means that the change must not feel like “hard” let say. The explanation must be given clearly. Something else that I liked is that we should somehow find the way how students may help us to check their work or their partners´ work and I think it would be nice to do this.
STUDENTS BEHAVIOR
This is really important cuz from this depend how successful your class will be. In this part students can help us to establish the classroom rules everybody will follow. The treatment is really important too because you must be fair (treat all students equally), we can not humiliated students, and of course we must respect all our students as we are going to ask them that.
I think that in our country some of these ideas are already applied, but we can take into consideration the other ones in order to do a better job.
Hello Alex. Hey I really think that if teachers learn how to include students in checking their classmates work, it could help students to develop many abilities, to be more mature and to be interested in their learning. This could be really nice especially in large groups.
ResponderEliminarGod Bless You.
well, to have controll over a class that presents discipline problems teachers mainly have to make noticeable that they are their friends, but that they are also the authority of the class. Commonly, large clases have oll those difficulties that you mentioned and that were mentioned in the video. You mentioned an important aspect when you said that creativity is crucial since being a teacher implies being creative. blessings!
ResponderEliminarI also think it's good to let students partake in rule elaboration and treat them equally. And certainly, many tips from the video can be useful if applied & adapted here.
ResponderEliminarDefinitely, if we as teachers want to manage a large group and have them learn we must plan the activities we are going to do.
ResponderEliminarWe already know that the students` behavior is always a problem (because... remember! we have a variety of persons n our class non of them are the same)so that it`s important to apply most of the suggestions that the video gives us!
Alex,
ResponderEliminarthe switching of activities in a smooth way is something that involves a great amount of time invested.