TESOL Assignment # 2 : Classroom Management Assignment

TITLE : How to deal with unexpected problems in a class

#TESOL 75 / Wendy

Your institution has very strict. “English only”policy. They are relying on you to implement and enforce this rule. How are going to go about it?

Let’s start with the answer of the first question. In 1993, then I was a Dealime Girls’ middle school, in Seoul, student. It was a horror to be given some English questions from my English teacher.  So as I read the first question, the memory came into my mind. My English teacher, her name was Lee Seawon, would pick up a random number of students’. And  she would shout “humm..... today’s number is.....twe..”.

Oh! no......!! “T....w...e....n...ty........nine!!!”...........

Unfortunately, she liked the number of 29 very much and then more unfortunately, I was the 29. I was strained then and I used to be very neryous before every English class in my middle school. If it had been possible to be absent, I would really really have done it. As I wasn’t good at English, I used to be afraid of making mistakes and I did hate feeling sence of shame.

I think that it’s the reason that people don’t like making themselves blunders not to speak english even it’s English class. Freedom of errors will lead our student to speak easily.

But we’ll fine the solutions in our tesol class and in the text book. I think ALM is the good and usefull in this case. So doing some activities together, for example Icebreakers that we have learned - given some drills, is a good way for helping them. So when I work as a English teacher, for the starting learnning student I want to teach More frequently through whole class activities  then individual presents. But gradually I can make them grow up the way to express individual activities.

And well made class management can make our class can do it effectively.

So as our taxt book gave us, at start We do with much STT and leading and we lead to more ST step by step.T

2. How will you as a teacher enforce frequent tardiness and frequent absences in the classroom?

Our text book said the importance of rapport and creating a positive learning. I want to say with them.

I want to talk my experience about 2nd question as a teacher. iT was very  impressive. IT was 5 years ago, I was a teacher in Chunghunbu in Anyang, Kuygido. Then there lived many poor families. I had a boy student in the town, his parents all work everyday until 11(pm). the boy was usually late and didn't do his homeworks. I thought he is going to live like their parents if he would not change his habit.  It’s very frightening to have paternal habits from parents. I worried about him and I wanted to help him. But I didn't know how would I come up.. I gave some presents, and some points and tried to take with him......All the didn't work But I hated to believe he couldn't change anymore. So I tried to corporal punishment on him. He burnt out of tears and said. " Teacher... I' very loney. My mom comes at 11(pm). After school when I come home I hate calm so I turn on the TV. Then I stop in front of the TV. I am leadenness...I’m afriend of being alone in empty house" It hurt me. I huged him, I couldn't say any words. we didn't study the day. We ate Jajangmun together talking togerther. However, he changed his behavior and we could start to disscuss how to do  his work better. He didn't be late. It was very big event for me because It changed my mind of a teacher.

In the text book, when I read “show respect. really listen to student, non-judgemental..atc

I believe a the heart can work some day. I would like to be a teacher who never stop loving student. Sometimes we can see with a 3rd-person eye.  But as a teacher loving their students. And don't stop asking how we can help then. Then when we meet some problems, we can find with them.  I think students do not  ignore the teachers who allow their student.

3. How will you help your students prepare for any lesson presentations that they may need to do throughout the schoolyear.

In the text book, we can find the good way that we can teach. Of course I’ll teach helpful sentence completion, complicated and unclear instructions but it is a basis to teach them.

In Seoul in  1993, I was a Sihung high school student, my homeroom teacher gave some project as a group work. During I did the job,  I played a very active role and she was a good helper. Now I can remember the special class. She was like a mother. We could ask whenever we need something then she became a good help and she made us we do ourselves actively.

Consideration with those three questions, I thought power and influence of teacher. I want to be a mother. Real power not to make be a be afraid of me,  to make them follow me conatively and at last, to make them do something by themselves. I want to be a teacher not only having good power like these but also having good more practical skills that can help deal with them.