Eleventh blog entry

Classroom Management

The classroom management refers to a process that teachers guarantee the classroom instruction, the order and effectiveness in which students will learn.

The main goal of classroom management from my point of view is to create and to maintain a good environment that allows students and the teacher to have a good relationship that facilitates the learning process of students.

 Classroom management is not just for teacher’s sanity. It is for the good of your students too. They cannot learn under a chaotic environment and the idea behind classroom management is to prepare them for the learning process

Also the classroom management refers to managing the students, studying in the classroom, the teacher and students’ behavior and the activity; it is the way teachers organize what goes on in the classroom. It contributes directly to the efficiency of teaching and learning as the most effective activities can be made almost useless if the teacher does not organize them efficiently.

Important principles of classroom management

•    Be Definite Know what you want and expect in the classroom.
•      Be Aware teachers have to be aware because students will misbehave. Things will go wrong. And this is our job to be aware of everything that can go wrong in class.
•    Be Calm and Consistent teachers have to be calm and consistent throughout their class.  They have to treat them as they would treat another adult no matter how childish their behavior is.
•   Give them Structure Children demand structure and order in the class.  After knowing what you want in your classroom, it’s time to explain that to your class. Tell them in details your expectations and how you want them to behave in your class.
•   Be positive Always be on the lookout for good behavior and let them know that they are doing a good job.
•    Be interested I think this is one of the most powerful principles in classroom management. By developing a good relationship with your students, you can influence them better towards better behavior and performance in the classroom.
•     Be flexible Trust your instincts and judgment when the situation calls for some flexibility.
•  Be Persistent The classroom management techniques you apply in class might not work immediately. Give it a chance to work before trying something else. Do not give up on your students. Understanding their family background can help you understand better why some of your students misbehave badly.
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The effective use of classroom management by teacher it is very important for them to succeed in their job because, if teachers don’t know how to have a good classroom management, they won be able to do their job in the best way as they should, so that is why teachers have to know the importance of classroom management not only to do their job well but also to help students to learn in the best way as possible.

Tenth blog entry

My motives for teaching

My main motive for teaching is that trough teaching I have the opportunity to help others to be able to reach their dreams and their full potential; I see this as legate for the future generations. Also I get motivated when I see people learn at least a little bit from me and that makes me want to keep going in the same way and to get better as a teacher. I want to become a teacher in order to transmit knowledge of what I know and all the things that I have learned.

Rewards or incentives I got from teaching.

To get rewards or incentives go beyond of having a salary every month for me it is more important to help others to reach and to make their dreams come true; I think money is a plus but what it really matters to me is that I have the opportunity to change somebody life and to help that person to succeed in life. When my students learn the contents, they do the activities that I prepared for them;  when I see that they have accomplish the activity, there is when I get my reward because I have helped somebody to learn and that is a priceless feeling to any teacher;  that is definitely the best award to me.

Do my motives interfere with my students needs?

I don’t think that my motives interfere with my ability to put the needs of my students ahead or mine because my main motive is to help my students to learn in order for them to reach their dreams and their full potential and this is also my rewards because when it comes about my work as a teacher this is the best reward that any teacher can get because there is nothing better than to see others learning and becoming successful.

Ninth blog entry

Things I like about working with teenagers.

There are many things that I really like when it comes about teaching teenagers. Well we all already know that the teen years are a time of transition from becoming a dependent child to a young adult who is capable of taking care of themselves. During this stage of transitional physical and mental human development, teens tend to seek independence.

What I like about teaching teenagers is:

•   Teenagers are highly motivated people, who have a desire to be involved in the class activities.
•  They are enthusiastic; I sow this attitude, when I gave them interesting and meaningful activities in which they learned and had fun at the same time.
• They are energetic; they really like to play fun actives and they always try to give the best of them but only when they are interested in the activity.
• The passion of the students to be self dependent; they are always trying to do all the activities for themselves without the teachers help.
• They like to ask question if they haven’t understood the topic of the class.

I really like these attitudes of teenagers because if they feel involved in the class and also if they feel interested in the activities they tent to learn easily and that is why teachers have to look for the most suitable activities for teenagers.

The things I don’t like about teaching teenagers are:

•        They get distracted easily, especially when they are doing an activity in which they don’t feel interested in it.
•       They are rebel because they don’t like to follow the rules and they want to do the things that they like to do even though, if those things are not good for their academic development.
•         They are very talkative because they like to be taking in the class instead of being paying attention to the class.
•          They are very competitive and as a result they get involved in faiths with their classmates.
•          They complain about everything that happen to them

Even though teaching teenagers is a hard job is definitely a great experience to any teacher and I haven’t been the exception. I learned a lot from this experience because now I know how to teach teenagers; especially I know how they behaved and in the future when I have to teach teenagers again I will be ready to help them to learn in the best way possible.

Eighth blog entry

What can the World Wide Web offer ESL/EFL teachers?

The World Wide Web for sure it can help ESL/EFL teachers. The internet is very useful   for teaching English. Teachers can use it for getting information for their classes, including teaching plans and material for classroom use. 

There are a lot of pages in which teachers can put their students to study a specific topic because in the net we can find a lot of English pages, that were created with the purpose to help people to learn English in a easy way and the majority of these pages are easy for students to understand the contests and we can take advantages of these resource.

When we take advantage of these resource we are helping our students to learn in a better way, because they can find these pages interesting and the class it will be more dynamic and result more interesting for students because not all our students are interested in learning English but if we use these tools, we can stimulate our students to learn English also they are going to understand that the learning English could be a interesting and enjoyable process.

The internet is a way for students and teachers to learn and to connect with others for example the teacher can use the social networking to communicate with their students and to help them to accomplish a task; also the teacher can ask their students to send their homework to the teacher e-mail.

So the internet is an exciting resource for teacher. When teachers use the internet to teach the internet can make teachers’ live simpler and can provide more information and resources that help students to learn better also the internet can be fun for students and teachers alike.