Management

Source:

The English Skills Learning Center blog: “Tips on Classroom

Management for Adult ELL classes”

http://www.eslcenter.org/about-us/blog/103-tips-on-classroom-management-for-adult-ell-classes

Classroom

management—what and why?

Challenges

of teaching different age groups and cultural backgrounds in the

same classroom

Challenges

of “mixed classrooms”—English and ESL

Different

college settings (Community college, 4 year college, grad school)

The

7 tips the English Skills Center blog shares in their article, and

how we

implement them in the classroom:

Make

class expectations clear and realistic and stick to them

Be

consistent: set class routines that students can become familiar

with

Find

a balance between being your students’ teacher and being their

friend (respected vs. approachable)

Work

to engage all the students while teaching. Don’t base the pace of

an entire class on one or two students

Use

interactive activities and open-ended questions as a chance to check

student comprehension

Ask

for student feedback and incorporate it as appropriate for everyone

Recognize

that some discipline concerns need to be addressed immediately,

while others are better done individually after class

Plus,

3 more tips (from us) for an even 10!

Follow

the “golden rule”—treat students with the same respect you

expect from them

Don’t

shame students into submission, participation, etc. (Brene Brown)

Address

different learning styles

(in addition to pace) in order to reach everyone

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learners

FYI:

listen to future episodes for similar segments about audio learners

and kinesthetic learners!

Source:

Adam Simpson’s blog, “Teach them English,”

http://www.teachthemenglish.com/2014/05/using-infographics-to-teach-language-the-why-how-and-where/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Beginning

English

Picto-wikis

Infographic

Timeline

of events in a story

Illustrating

student work

Diagrams:

Venn diagrams, columns, thought-webs

Building

blocks of English writing (bottom of pyramid)

Intermediate

English

Building

blocks of English writing (top of pyramid)

Outlining

essays (outline as a “blueprint”)

Videos

(i.e. “School House Rock” for Grammar)

Powerpoints

(a picture is worth a thousand words—being succinct;

animations—giving students a chance to answer first)

Presentations

(posters, Powerpoints, passed objects, etc.)

Graffiti

Advanced

English

Research

presentations (Powerpoint and beyond)

Videos

(for the student and

by the student)

Including

pictures in wikis (literal and abstract)

Picture

outline (a picture for each point)

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debate

Immigration

issue

Preserving

L1/living in predominantly L1 communities

Learning

the spoken language of new country and letting go of L1

Actively

integrating both in daily life

Language

and identity

First-generation

Americans

Kids

caught between cultures

3rd

culture kids

Role

reversal in immigrant families

Multilingual

countries

The

linguistic divide can cause political/cultural tension (i.e. Quebec)

Language

status (English vs. anything in the U.S.)

Countries

that were formally colonized and the linguistic implication

English

as the official language of the U.S.

The

U.S. does not

have an official language

English’s

status in the U.S. as the “unofficial official language”

Should

the U.S. have an official language?

What

should it be?

Should/could

there be more

than one?

Is

this an issue to be decided at a state or federal level?

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