mi youn kim (tina)

October 21, 2012

Times Media 81th Weekend TESOL

Instructor: Ben

TESOL 02: Classroom Management & Positive Discipline

Classroom Management & Positive Discipline

My parents, We grew up as the children of the baby boomer generation.

In most homes, there were many children and I also have many siblings.

There were a lot of pupils in one class during my school days.

Besides, In some densely populated areas of Seoul, students studied at

schools divided into AM and PM classes. In this educational

environment teachers delivered lecture and explanation about knowledge

in front of the students.

There were about fifty students in our class when i was in elementary

so homeroom teachers might not have  been capable of classroom management.

Students were expected to be quiet and obedient in the classroom.

Teachers always said that students studied best in a quiet environment.

Teachers hissed down his pupils and they kept

calm towards the ill-mannered questions and remarks and asked

the students to open their textbooks to move on with their studies

Each semester, teachers chose students to help classroom teachers

operate.  Teachers gave class president permissions to

manage classroom when they left classroom.

They wrote the names of students on the blackboard who do not study,

and sleep or talk loudly. When the teacher came back into the

classroom, they had to take the punishment like writing an essay about

their wrongdoings, cleaning the classroom or the toilets after school.

I was quite a quiet person but I was a good student during my

freshman year. At that time, I  cheated on a dictation test to receive a good score and I was sent to the teacher.

She slapped me on the face and shoved me in front of all pupiles. The

experience made an indelible trauma on me. If she had proposed an alternative..

I think that teachers should respect our pupils and be realistic about

what they can manage at an individual level. So we need a different

approach to why there are so many differences in the childhood of

each 1st graders. Also classroom management should be different.

So I think about  how to do in The following situations for the positive

discipline and classroom management.

How will you manage the attendance and tardy policy?

Tardy student were ordered to stand in the hallway until the start of

classes when I was in school. Most tardy students were corrected,

sometimes teacher get them to come to class early in the morning then

fixed the problem.This method had an effect, and students were not

late anymore.

What if Students did not complete any assigned homework?

If pupils don't do their daily homework, they'll get behind in their studies.

So teachers rebuke them for not doing their assignment.

But some students might be difficult, so teacher should consider the

ability of the student. Also teachers should not forget to laud the

students for their excellent work.

How will you maintain an "English Only Policy"?

It is difficult to learn English from the EFL environment. The biggest

problem is that, I would say, 99% of all students speak English only in

the classroom. so we need "English-Only Policy (E.O.P.)"

Make an English corner and pin up a wall chart on the wall and

write down "English-Only Policy (E.O.P.)"

Try to speak English with students as much time as I can.

Because pupils are unlikely to have opportunity to hear English all day,

so I should let them hear as much English as possible while I have

them in class.