Teaching Tips

These are some hints for classroom discipline
1.Start by being firm with students.
2.Get silence before you start speaking.
3.Know and use students' names.
4.Prepare lessons thoroughly.
5.Walk around the class.
6.Maintain interest and curiosity.
7.Speak clearly.
8.Make sure your instructions are clear.
9.Have extra material prepared.

10.Look at the class directly when speaking.
11.Make work appropriate to pupils age, ability, cultural background...
12.Developed the art of timing you lesson.
13.Vary your teaching techniques.
14.Anticipate discipline problems and act quickly.
15.Avoid confrontations.
16.Clarify fixed rules and standards.
17.Show yourself as supporter and helper.
18.Use humor.
19.Choose topics that will activate students.
20.Be warm and friendly.
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Teaching Tips

To help children when learn a new language teachers should:
1.Use English in class as the main language for communication.
2.Use gestures, actions and pictures to help children understand you.
3.Use gestures, actions and pictures to help children understand you.

4.Children need to talk in order to learn - let children use their mother tongue for communication especially to star with.
5.Recast in English what children say to you in their mother tongue.
6.Answer children in English.
7.Use their mother tongue for support when you do a new activity or if no one understand.
8.Talk a lot in English, they need to hear English.
REMEMBER:
- The more English the children hear, the more they will learn.
- They will learn gradually. Encourage them by responding positively.
- Use their mother tongue for support when you do a new activity.
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Traffic Jam

Objective

To be the first team to successfully move their

Description

Imagine you have seven sheets of paper on the ground. Numbered from 1 - 7. You then will have 2 teams of three people. Have team one stand on numbers 1-3, and team two stand on numbers 5-7. Teams need to be facing the number four. The object of the game is to mover all three of your team to the opposite teams numbers. You have unlimited moves but you have to follow these two rules

1. You can only move into one space at a time.

2. You can only move into an empty space directly in front of you.

Or, you can move around a person who is facing you into a empty space.

The object is to be the set of teams that can do it the fastest.

Solution: - The trick is to move one side and then the other, alternating as you go. If often takes the group a while to see that you need to make sure that two people facing the same way are not standing next to each other. Once they see the pattern developing it is quite easy to complete the solution. Move 1 to 4, move 5 to 3, move 6 to 5, move 2 to 4, move 1 to2, move 3 to 1, move 5 to 3, move 7 to 5, move 6 to 7, move 4 to 6, move 2 to 4, move 3 to 2, move 5 to 3, move 4 to 5.

Requirements

Number of Players: multiple of six, minimum of 12

Ages: 8 and up

Activity Level: medium

Equiptment: None

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people 2 people

Objective

Learn about each other

Description

Set up small groups of 8-12 players and have them sit in a circle for this icebreaker. One person is given the ball of yarn and finds the end of it. They will toss the ball of yarn to anyone within the circle while they are still holding the end of the ball of yarn. Now ask the person that caught it one or two questions. If this is a new group that doesn't know everyone they are to introduce themselves first before answering the questions at the beginning of the game. Here are some ideas as to what questions to ask; What is your favorite color, music group, the person that has influenced you the most, what are you afraid of, your favorite food, time of the year, or any other question to might pertain to this event.

That person then holds part of the yarn and then tosses the ball of yarn to anyone that hasn't received the ball yet. You repeat this until everyone has had the ball of yarn and you will notice that you have created a unique web that has connected all the players together in one way. You can pass the ball again to ask one - two more questions from each player.

Requirements

Number of Players: Small to medium groups

Ages: 10 and up

Activity Level: low

Equiptment: ball of yarn or string

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Quotes I Enjoy.....

Quotes I enjoy
Do more than exist: LIVE.
Do more than touch: FEEL.
Do more than look: OBSERVE.

Do more than read: ABSORB.
Do more than hear: LISTEN.
Do more than listen: UNDERSTAND.
Do more than think: REFLECT.
Do more than just talk: SAY SOMETHING!

I am living on a shimmering line between my old thinking and my new understanding, always in a state of learning!

You must be the change you wish to see in the world~ Ghandi
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Before I knew Your name.....

Before I knew your name,
Before I saw your face.
Your chin and your nose,
Before I counted your fingers and toes,
I asked heaven for someone as wonderful as you,
And every prayer and wish came true.
Before I knew your name.




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