organizing your class room and materials

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Organizing Your Class

Room And Materials


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Introduction :

As teachers, we all know that the classroom accommodationsprovided to us can differ greatly in size and comfort. Someclassrooms are modern, spacious, and airy. Others arecramped, outdated, and crumbling. Whatever the space, you

can improve it. You work hard to create rigorous learningopportunities for your students, you love the work you do, butsometimes the clutter and disorganization of your classroomspace makes your teaching less efficient and becomescumbersome for you and your students. The followingsuggestions can be applied in many ways and will hopefully bring

some inspiration for lightening up, creating flow, and for helpingthe school day run more smoothly.


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Preparing Class Room

Preparing a classroom each fall can be exciting, but also a littleoverwhelming. If you are a new teacher or have been teaching for

several years.

There is no limits to the way in which teachers can group students in a

classroom,although certain factors such as over-crowding,fixed

furniture,and entrenched students attudides may makes thingproblematic As schools become more and more crowded.Still, there

are ways to organize a small classroom with a little creativity and

some clever use of space.


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Whole-Class Teaching

When people think of teaching and learning they frequently conjure up

a picture of students sitting in rows

Teaching a class as a whole-group getting students to work in their

owen has many advantages and disadvantages,each is more or less

appropriate for different activities


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Advantages :It reinforce a sense of belonging among the group students.

It is suitable for activities where the teacher is acting like a controller.

It allows the teacher to gauge the mood of the class.

Student and teacher feel secure under the dicert authority of the teacher.

Disadvantages : It favour the group rather than the individual.

Students risk the public failure. It may not encourage students to take responsability for their owen learning.

Not the best way to organize communicative language teaching.


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Students In Their Owen

The idea of students in their owen,working in a pattern of individualised

learning or when students take charge of their own learning in self-

access centres or other out of class

If we wish students to work in their own we have to ask to read privately

ask them questions individually,writing tasks


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Advantages :Allows students to respond to individual students.

Less stressful for students.

It can develop learner autonomy and promote skills of self-reliance.It can be a way of restoring peace and tranquillity to a noisy chaotic situation.

Disadvantages :No sense of belonging.

does not encourage cooperation in which students may be able to help and

motivate each other.

It take much more time than interacting with the whole-class.


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PairWork

In pair work students can practise language or take part in information-

gap activities


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Advantages :.It dramatically increases the amount of speaking time

.It allows students to work and interact independently

Promoting learner independence..Promoting cooperation helps the class room to become friendly place

It is relatively quik and easy to organize.

Disadvantages :.Frequently very noisy(teacher risk of loosing contrle)

.Students in pairs can often veer away from yhe point of exercice

The actuel choice of paired can be problematic.


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Group Work

We can put students in larger groups too,since this will allow them to do

arange of tasks for which pair group is not sufficient or

appropriate,small group of around 5 students provoke greater

involvement and participation than large group


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Advantages :.Like pair group,it dramatically increase the amount of talking

.It encourages broader skills of cooperation and negociatiation

It promotes learners autonomy.

Disadvantages :It is likely to be noisy.

Not all the students enjoy it.

Some are passive where as others may dominate.


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The Best Seating Arrangement For A Class

Orderly Rows :When the students sit in rows in classroom,there are obvious

advantages.

the teacher has a clear view,of all the students.

it makes lecturing easy.

it keep eye contact .

it makes discipline easier .

it implies teachers working with the whole-class.


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Circles And HorseshoesIn smaller classes,many teachers and students prefer circle or

horseshoes.

In horseshoes :the teacher will probably at the open and of the arrangement since that may

well be.where the board,overhead projector and/or recorder are situated.

Circles :the teacher position is less dominating.

classes which are arranged in a circle make quite and strong statement

about what the teacher and the students beleive in.

the teachers beleive in lowering the barriers between themselves and their

students.


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Class Room materials

The boardThe following items of equipment are frequently used in classrooms and study

centres

the traditionnal board the new board


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ComputerThe range of uses for computer in english language teaching is growing all the

time


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The overhead projectorOverhead projectors are really useful for showing pre-prepared transparencies

or as an alternative to broad


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The video cameraVideos camera are incredibly useful in the EFL classroom

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