BO3 Session 2 Classroom management

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BO3 Session 2 Classroom management

Welcome everyone!

How are you feeling?

Today's lesson

• Recap of last week
• Discussion about this week's prep work
• Introduction of, and group work on, learning aims and success criteria 
  

Aim: At the end of the lesson, students can formulate SMART aims and success criteria for one aspect of classroom management.

SC: Students can define lesson aims and success criteria

SC: Students can list the 10 tips by Teitler

SC: Students can describe their aspect of improvement related to classroom management

Recap session 1
What is the end product of BO3?

1. A paper which discusses different forms of interaction.
2. A presentation which discusses 4 forms of interaction tried out in the classroom and zooms in on one.

The formative part consists of:

1. Trying out 4 forms of interaction at your placement school.
2. Trying out and recording 4 forms of interaction at your placement school and presenting them to peers for feedback.
3. Trying out your favourite form of interaction at your placement school and presenting it to your peers.
4. Being up-to-date on the BS prep work for class and discussing it with peers.

Questions I have about the formative and/or summative assignment.

Class management homework:
List 3 or more tips from
Teitler's videos.

Teitler's 10 tips for classroom management

1. Be professional (Don't be yourself)

2. Make contact with your students

3. Use a fixed pattern for your first lessons

4. Keep students busy

5. Make your rules clear

6. If you focus on  less important things, more important things get less focus

7. Nip bad behaviour in the bud!

8. Control all communication in the classroom

9. Be consistent!

10. If something doesn't work, change your strategy

Discuss in groups for 10 minutes

• Which of the tips in the Teitler videos did you consider to be the most important? Why? Use examples from your lessons.
• Which of the 10 tips did you consider to be the least important? Why? Refer to your own classroom.
• Can you describe a classroom situation you have been in when you would have benefitted from one or more of the tips from Teitler?

Formulating SMART aims and Success Criteria

Who knows what the acronym SMART stands for?

I do

Not yet

Is this an example of a good AIM?
Students can write a 150-word story in English.

YES

NO

I DON'T KNOW

Which aim is SMART?

1. Students can write 5 sentences in English.
2. Students know how to tell a funny joke.
3. Students can use the past simple correctly when talking about their latest holiday for 2 minutes.
4. Students at A1 level can discuss their political preference for 8 minutes.

Success Criteria (SC)

In groups of three to four students, write down 3 SC for the following aim at CEFR level A2:

Students can write 150 words about what they did during their latest summer holiday within 30 minutes.

Discussion: How long will it take your students to achieve this aim?

One person per group posts the SC

Individual: My SMART aim and SC for the aspect of keeping order in the classroom.
Results are filmed and presented next week.

Questions I still have about today's lesson OR what I would like to know more about: