The second in a four part series on Classroom Management for trainees and novice English teachers. Check out other videos and a 'Grammar for language teachers' course at elt-training.com

1. Classroom Management II
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Giving instructions

2. Classroom
management
Teacher talk and
language grading
Giving clear
instructions
Setting up and
running activities
Giving effective
feedback

3. Classroom
management
Giving clear
instructions

4. Why are good
instructions important?

5. • Efficient
• Give learners confidence in you
• Keep lesson running smoothly
• Increase opportunity for STT?

6. An example…..

9. Get their attention

10. Be decisive

11. Speak
clearly
Project your
voice

12. Use short sentences and simple language.
Where’s the coffee shop?
So, Salmeh, could you tell me
where the coffee shop is?

13. Speak to the whole class

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17. Use visual or
written clues

18. CINEMA

19. Gesture

20. Point!
Use body
language

21. Use facial
expressions

22. Use a stronger learner to help
(...even at higher levels).

23. Break
things
down
into
smaller
steps

24. Check that they
understand..

25. but…

26. Do you understand?

27. Tell me what you have to do.

28. You have to write three
sentences.
How many sentences do
you have to write?

29. What if I start and it’s
clear that one group
don’t understand what to
do?

30. What if I start and it’s
clear that half of the class
don’t understand what to
do?

31. When do you give the
hand-out? Before or after
the instructions?
A good question?

32. A better example…..

33. T: OK, can you all look at me? Now we’re going to
practise giving directions: turn right, turn…
Ls:Left
T: Yes, good. So here is a map. Can you see this? It’s a
town. Here is my house. I want to go to the cinema. It’s
here. (shows them)

34. So, what do I do? I come out of my house, and I turn…
Ls:Right
T: And then at the crossroads, I turn..
Ls: left
T: Good – and go straight on. The cinema is on my..
Ls: left.
T: OK, Salmeh, let’s have an example. How do I get to the
coffee shop from my house?
……….(Salmeh explains)
T: Great – now turn to face your partner (gestures with
hands and learners do this)
Ask your partner ‘How can I get to the …..(cinema?
garage)?’ (T shows this question, which has already been
practised, on the board).
Ask about 6 different places.

35. Thank you!
jo.gakonga@elt-training.com

36. Ok, so if you all listen up a bit… we’re got this piece of paper
and it’s got a kind of a map on it – there are a few roads and a
variety of the kind of facilities you’d find in a town..Ok.. Right,
uhmmm.. So what do you do? Ummm you’ll each have one
and you need to work with a partner – I think it’s probably
best if you turn your chairs around but you can do that in a
minute if you like. Err Ok, so the thing to do is to imagine that
you’re at your house in the top left hand corner and you want
to go to the cinema, for example, so you need to ask your
partner for the directions – like we were just practising before
– turn right, keep going, that kind of thing. Take it in turns –
off you go.