Teacher Training Workshop

黃貴敏 PhD in Educational & Applied Linguistics

Presentation Structure

1. Classroom Management - Discipline techniques and paper work that will make your life easier

2. Observation Form/Lesson Planning

3. Useful Games

1. Tricks – video

2. Rewards • Weaken interest• Weaken active learning• Shallow• divisive

3. Praise• Leads to less risk taking• Increases dependency

Classroom Management - Discipline

Praise – con.

• Increases insecurity

• Weaken children’s ability to communicate

• Divides the class

4. Punishment

• Counter productive

• Undermines self-esteem

• Focuses attention on a minority of children

Classroom Management – paper work

• Paper work can sometimes make your life easier – do have a check list on ‘things to be done’

• Paper you must have – student name list

Lesson Planning

• Careful planning is important – it help to build confidence.

• Teachers should be flexible with implementing their plan.

• The starting point for the plan should be the main aim/objective of the lesson.

• When planning a series of lessons teachers should ensure that learners get a varied and balanced diet.

• Course book can help teachers enormously but teachers still need to evaluate each piece of material and decide if it will be useful for their group.

• Teachers need to monitor the progress of individuals in the group.

Classroom Observation

• Why do we observe?

• Observation Practice

Useful Games

• Tic-Tac-Toe• Heart Attack• Musical Chair• Big wind Blows• Duck-Duck-Goose• Hammer/flashcard Games• 4-corner Phonics • Bingo• Messenger