My Classroom Management...

I have been off for while, but I have been reading and studying a lot meanwhile... I still keep doing staff on learning objectives, but it is kind of fading away. I try to use it in practice more and remember all ideas I've got about it. If I get chance of course, as I am not supposed to do things that could be named as teaching... But if I get just book and pages to read and answer the questions, I make the objectives related to work, using some of measurable behavioural verbs. It seams to work pretty well, when I refer to it at the end of lesson.

Another things I came across are related to the classroom management. Now when I write things and try to make it relevant, all my ideas and advices or strategies I read about somehow are staying in mi mind and I remember to try it and they work. Not always, but certainly thinks are better now. One of most useful thinks so far is calmness, patience and wait for silence. Last two weeks I tried not to talk, when someone else was talking. It cost me a bit of time from lesson, but leads to more calm and quiet lesson... So I just announce that I am waiting for silence and stay standing still. Than I remind them and eventually they are still and listen... If not I stop talking. And again and again and again. The same during lesson whenever I need to talk. Sometimes we won't finish all planned work. But I feel more confident and relaxed and it looks like kids feel the same.

Maybe I've just discovered America (as we say back in Slovakia) but it works for me. After so many failed days... One wonderfull entry comes here. Well, this explains why it is better now, than it was. I am building this relationship. I am not really good in this but I try...