Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012. — 315 p. — (Cambridge Handbooks for Language Teachers). — ISBN 978-0-52174185-9.Overall winner of the 2012 HRH The Duke of Edinburgh ESU English Language Book Award, Classroom Management Techniques offers a huge range of practical techniques to help teachers make the most of their teaching space and get students working in more focused ways. It helps teachers anticipate and avoid problems in the classroom, allowing more time to be devoted to meaningful activities. By analysing the classroom from three perspectives: the classroom, the teacher and the learners, this book presents a ground-breaking analysis of 14 kinds of teacher intervention, allowing teachers to examine the way they communicate with learners.Classroom management is about creating the right conditions for effective learning – whichever method you use, whatever your classroom is like and whoever your students are. Classroom Management Techniques offers a huge range of down-to-earth, practical techniques that will help you make the most of your teaching space and get your students working in more focused ways.This book will inspire you to try out fresh ideas, from the basic to the more experimental. It will also help you to anticipate and avoid problems in the classroom, allowing more time to be devoted to useful, meaningful activities.A complete and essential activity-based guide to ELT classroom management.
Includes techniques that are clearly presented and easy to implement, requiring minimal preparation.
Analyses the classroom from three perspectives: the classroom, the teacher and the learners.
Presents a ground-breaking analysis of 14 kinds of teacher intervention, allowing you to really examine the way you communicate with learners.
Shows you how to facilitate interaction in your lessons and get everyone talking.
Deals with critical teaching issues such as mixed level classes, difficult physical conditions and discipline.
Delivers real solutions for real classroom problems.Примечание. Качество высокое, но в книге отсутствуют 50 страниц (150, 152, 154, 157, 158, 162, 164, 165, 170, 175, 178, 186, 187, 189, 190, 191, 200, 203, 207, 208, 211, 214, 216, 217, 219, 221, 222, 225, 230, 234, 235, 236, 238, 248, 253, 254, 255, 256, 258, 260, 262, 265, 271, 277, 279, 280, 282, 284, 293, 296).ContentsIntroductionThe classroom
Different classroom layouts
Setting up the room for specific activities
Avoiding chaos when rearranging the room
Effective seating arrangements
Varying teacher positions
Using a limited space
Sharing classrooms
Improving the classroom environment
Design and purchasing decisionsThe teacher
Being yourself
Establishing and maintaining rapport
Ways of listening
Turning the volume up and down
Finding the right voice tone
Varying the quantity of your control
Gestures and facial expressions
The teacher’s language
Using intuition
The teacher as researcherThe learners
Learning names
Helping the group to work together
Mixed-level classes
Large classes
Individuals
A learner-centred approachKey teacher interventions
Being supportive
Asserting authority
Giving instructions
Telling
Eliciting
Questioning
Checking learning and understanding
Being catalytic
Structuring and signposting
Giving encouragement, feedback and praise
Giving difficult messages
Permitting emotion
Being unhelpful
VanishingFacilitating interaction
Whole-class work
Encouraging students to speak
Researching interaction
Reducing unnecessary teacher talk
Should students put up their hands?
Training students to listen to each other
Withholding validation of student answers
Pairs and groups
Making pairs and groups
Keeping pair work and group work interesting
Encouraging quieter learners to speak in pairs or groups
Monitoring pair and group work
Encouraging students to use English
Allocating group-participant roles
Justifying pair and group work to students
The world
Interaction beyond the classroom wallsEstablishing and maintaining appropriate behaviour
Setting the stage for positive behaviour
Dealing with small disruptions
Serious discipline issuesLessons
Starting lessons
Using the board
The coursebook
Time and pace
Handouts
Low-tech resources
Working with computers
Post-task
Closing lessons
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