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               Unit 5    Classroom Management 

   Classroom management is the way teachers organize what goes on in the classroom. It contributes directly to the efficiency of teaching and learning as the most efficiently. Good managerial  skill on the part of the teacher are very essential component of good teaching, as the goal of classroom management is to create an atmosphere conductive to interacting in English in meaningful ways. Efficient classroom management can be achieved when the following six conditions are met.

    1. What roles do teachers play in theclassroom?

    2. How to give effective classroom instructions?

    3. What are the different ways for students grouping?

    4. How to maintain disciplines in the classroom?

    5. Howto ask effective questions?

    6. How to treat students’ errors in the classroom?

I. The roles of the teacher

 What roles do teachers play in the classroom?

 Before class: a planner 

                       What to teach…/  How to teach…/What result to achieve…

After  class: an evaluator

                   How successfully he has conducted the class… 

                 How efficient the learning activities have been…

                 an assessor

     During the class:

                         an organizer, a controller, a prompter, 

                          a participant, a resource-provider

※ Teacher's new roles

Teachers’ roles are not static. They change with the implementation of the

new English curriculum. Teachers are expected to put on new roles 

    Teachers facilitators (helper)

                  Teachers as guides

                  Teachers as researchers

II. Classroom instruction

    Classroom instructions refer to the type of language teachers use to organize

 or guide learning. They include 

(1) giving directions to tasks oractivities

(2) providing explanations concept or language structure

(3) settling requirements

(4) checking comprehension

(5) drawing attention

(6) motivating  learners

(7) giving feedback 

(8) assigning homework

※Generally they include all classroom language that teachers may use for 

teaching purpose as well as for managing teaching. 

Rules for making clear instructions:

(1) The first is to use simple instructions and make them suit the comprehension level of the students.

(2) The second rule is to use the mother-tongue only when it is necessary.

     (3) Give students time to get used to listening to English instructors and help 

them make an effort to understand them (use body language, guess or deduce meaning from context).

(4) Sometimes it can be quite complicated to give instructions in English for a 

complicated task. The best thing to do is to model the task/activity before letting students move into groups or pairs.

      (5) Be careful not to do all the talking in class. Try to avoid lengthy explanations. Remember demonstration is usually more effective than words. keep your own talking to a minimum during the activities.

   III. Student grouping

   An important feature of today's language classroom is that students do not always as one biggroup. Rather for much of the class time students are put into groups of different sizes. The most common student groupings are whole class work, pairwork, group work and individual study

(1)What is whole class work?   P.74

                  Pair work?

                  Group work?

                  Individual work?

       (2)When de we use these work?

       (3)What are the advantages and disadvantages (task4)of these four types of student grouping?

       (4)Grouping methods

 Different grouping methods have different values in language teaching 

classroom. There are some suggest on student grouping methods.P₇₆