Organiser
Organising students to do various activities is one of the most important roles
that teachers have. It involves giving the students information, defining the workforms
in the classroom and organising teaching material. Skilful classroom
management involves the following areas:
- organising the environment – it means decorating the walls of the classroom
with culture-related posters, maps, flags etc. and arranging the desks and chairs so
that the students can learn in different work-forms (in group-, pair-work etc.);
- organising the children – according to language proficiency or language
abilities;
- organising activities – so that the ideal balance of skills and activities should
be maintained. After each stirring activity a settling activity must be planned, and
various skills should be developed in different work-forms;
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- organising time – in an average lesson maximum five minutes must be
devoted to a warm-up activity, which is followed by the so-called 3Ps
(presentation, practice and production with about ten-fifteen minutes spent on
each). The last period of lesson is to be spent on revision and giving feedback to
the students;
- organising resources – is as important an area as the ones mentioned
previously, because all types of teaching material such as the course book, the
workbook, handouts, cassettes etc. must be kept in a well-organised way so that the
teacher can use them smoothly without making a chaos;
- organising records – is considered to be a crucial element of classroom
management all the teachers have to think of as their handling not properly can
have legal consequences as well;
- organising yourself – is the last but perhaps most important element of
organisation as all the teachers are human beings and not machines with a lot of
private problems their students cannot feel. Before entering the classroom teachers
should leave their problems outdoors and focus on the work taking place inside.