TESOL MODULE 3

ASSIGNMENT #2 : CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT

ANXIETY FOR AN EFFECTIVE CLASS

NAME: LEE KYEONGSOOK (JEAN)

TEACHER'S NAME:BENJAMIN VALENCIA

CLASS: #75 WD

I took a lesson for improving English at Han Institution from 2000 to 2002. Unfortunately, I forgot teacher's name, He was an American and he   was a stern man.  He did not allowed the  use of a dictionary to  translate into Korean. I had a hard time in his class. I'm thankful to him because I am now more confident in speaking English after taking his lesson. I want to know what the most important job as a teacher is with applying  classroom management through my personal experiences. Common classroom management areas include such as activities, grouping, seating, authority, critical moments by Jim Scrivener.

I will enforce the "Englilsh only" policy in my classrooms, even though it is not mandatory.  "Classroom management is a set of organizational skills designed to help the class run smoothly and effectively." said Mr. Valencia,  my teacher. Therefore, the policy can be one of classroom managements. I often think to myself, "Can I be as confident in English as I am now if the instructor allowed me to use the dictionary?" I did not understand nor agree with him at first but I gradually came to understand the advantages of this policy.  Despite the fact that I was against his teaching ways, he never gave up and kept encouraging me. Now I use the same English classroom policy in my own classrooms.

How will you as a teacher enforce frequent tardiness and frequent absences in the classroom? There are some students in my class. The excuses I hear the most are they don't feel too well or they have somewhere after school.  I am well aware of their lack of interests in learning lower level English so I try to prepare various kinds of activities.  They can acquire interests naturally with participating in my activities, such as a guessing activity which students move to a placed number after guessing a number. Thus, gradually, they are getting better to be interested in learning.

There needs to be classroom interaction to help students for preparing  some presentation.  Classroom interaction between a teacher and students is important for learners. Communication was always one-way when I was in high school. My teacher taught and the students listened. There was no feedback from the teachers. I want to be different. I want to help my students. I want to monitor the students' progress and give them feedback.  I want to give them opportunities to have interaction with me as a teacher, using the information collected as a source of materials, changed seating to make a horseshoe arrangement for classroom interaction.

Thus, I will determine my own beliefs and values based on classroom interaction for classroom management. There needs to be  my attitude, intention and personality and my relationships with students to create skills for managing  a successful class. I will be engaging  and elicit a instruction and explicit concepts from students.