25 tips and illustrations

1. 25 TIPS ABOUT
CLASSROOM
MANAGEMENT

2. Conduct class in target language.
Modeling – both teacher to student and student to student. Monitoring –
during pair and group work, with and without responding to inaccuracies.
ENGLISH

3. Keep ratio of students talking time vs. teacher talking time high.

4. Build a community of trust, pleasant and
challenging class environments. Teachers are role
models for students, the attitudes and values
constitute basic factors that may allow or block
student learning. Love your work and love your
students. This will be your key to success.

5. THE SAME OF
YESTERDAY
Build on prior knowledge and recycle. Keep
reentering early basic material. Review and
recycle, going back to practice again, if
students cannot perform well.

6. Teach to different modalities VAKT
(visual, auditory, kinesthetic, and
tactile activities).

7. Guiding questions for monitoring
students’ comprehension when
listening, speaking, reading, and
writing.

8. Teach important suspects of FUMP (Form-written and spoken-
Use-social function- Meaning-what language structure
represents and Pronunciation) of new language in the
presentation.

9. A variety of pedagogical strategies for flexible grouping of
students. Consider having extra activities if students need more
presentation o practice activities, for fast and students that needs
more support. Each students is different, therefore they need
differentiated support and rhythms.

10. Focus on accuracy and fluency.

11. Provide wait time. Invite students to formulate questionings and
give them the time to think and answer back. Give students time to
write things down or copy from the board. Give students solitary
time to work and process information.

12. Develop higher-level thinking.
Give a twist in the right moment.

13. Teach learning strategies. Teachers can guide students to find
strategies and good conflict resolution practices. (Learning to learn and
learning to be and live in community).

14. Use a variety of purposeful resources (audiovisual materials are basic in teaching)
with the same language content. Support materials are fundamental in teaching a
language; they should be built into the instructional material. Teachers should be
alert to intervene on time, in order to generate self-confidence and autonomy in
the students. Value the student’s progress positively and guide them to learn
from errors.

15. Teach “inside - out” of the class. Take into account the social
and community aspects.

16. Develop sensitivity to other cultures to sharp understanding.

17. Negotiate and expose your classroom rules since the
very first week of class. Be flexible and use self-
affirmative language.

18. Go one step at a time. Do not give more
information than the one needed to move forward.

19. Write down, together with students, about the linguistic
objectives and content of each lesson. Remember students are
knowledge builders.

20. Use inaccuracy response techniques –
including encouraging peer correction

21. Implement peer-teaching. Use think/Pair/Share activities. Get
students to use eye-contact during pairwork. Pair work/group work–
varying methods of pairing/grouping, switching partners, groups.

22. Listen and get feedback from learners – ask for their feelings on a
task, too easy? Too difficult? Just right? (Thumbs up, down,
middle), ask students to share one thing they learned in the lesson
before leaving.

23. Use a variety of ongoing assessment and registry
instruments.

24. Measure only what students know and are able to do.

25. Find functional strategies to inform parents or guardians
about the foreign language program.

26. Use humor and fun activities