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WorksheetsClassroom Management: The teacher and the learners
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 40mins
Which of the options doesn't contain a characteristic of authencity?
Behaving in a way that is appropriately real and appropriately you.
Letting students see something of your genuine reactions to things, your moods and your natural behaviour.
Covering everything up in a performance.
"Being a real person in the relationship with students, not a faceless embodiment of a curricular requirement." (Carl Rodgers)
According to Carl Rodgers, we can see if a person is being honestly themselves or if they are acting, playing a role to a lesser or greater degree, and that we trust the latter much less and we are not able to relate to them as closely.
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Scrivener agrees with the Sue Cowley when she says that: "How you feel inside, doesn't matter...Your aim is to develop an air of confidence, self control and a mastery of everything that happens in your classroom."
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If you are in an environment where authenticity is discouraged, and the other staff all adopt a role of distant, formal and dignified authority, the best to do is chip away slowly at expectations, avoinding too much that might be seen threatening for students and other teachers. (Scrivener, 2013)
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Are descriptions of the steps in the techique: "Five steps to autenticity."
Stop yourself whenever you find yourself behaving more as a job title rather than yourself.
Have real conversations when talking to students, and really listen to what they say. Give your own personal reactions to students comments.
If you don't know an answer to a question, pretend you know and try to make an explanation that will not confuse the students.
Colleagues may tell you that being warm and friendly with students is dangerous, or that is essential for a teacher to keep a front. Their comments are well intentioned and you must hear them if they have more experience with those students.
You can be appropriately authoritative. Just know the difference between fulfilling the duties and responsibilities of a teacher and that "cloak of teacher superiority and hierarchical authority".
Which are aspects of rapport?
It is a sense of lively engagement, a roomful of people who are happy to be together and work together.
It has some distinct, concrete, learnable elements.
It is necessary to be welcoming, encouraging and approachable to build it.
Treating learners as individuals, remember positive about them and being yourself help to build it.
If you are not ok, pretend you are, bad mood can harm a good rapport.
Is it ok to be friends with students?
No. It is inappropriate.
Sure. There is no teaching without friendship.
It depends on the context where you teach, the age of your students and the amount of time you spend together, and there are many beliefs about classroom relationship.
Which are the ways of listening?
Conversational listening: it is like listening to a friend telling a story. It doesn't matter too much if you miss things.
Analytical listening: listening and paying attention to language and problems with communication.
Supportive listening: paying attention to the content of the conversation, understanding, overlooking problems, and hearing the message they want to convey.
Active listening: listening to all the details in the conversation, both the message and the problems in communication.
How to deal with the volume of the class?
Speak louder than students.
Always speak quietly.
Choose the best volume for that particular moment, although students mirror the teachers volume.
What's the difference between volume and tone?
Volume is when you speak louder or more quietly and tone is the way you speak: open, warm, friendly, in a factual way, etc.
Volume is related to the imposition of authority and tone is used to show empathy.
Volume is the way you speak and tone is when you change your voice according to the teacher role.
Check the options that are related to the teacher's control over their classroom.
Micromanagement is the same as high control.
It's possible to change the degree of control over the classroom.
It's possible to have a class with no control.
It's impossible to have a class with no control.
Gestures and signs do not always mean the same things in all cultures. It's important to know which gestures may be rude or inappropriate.
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Which of the items cannot be graded, when grading language.
Grammar and lexis.
Sounds, stress and speed of delivery.
Complexity and quantity of message.
Discourse features and noise
Meaning
Learning things from books is usually more useful, when you are a teacher. So, research teacher's manuals, and metodology books.
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Knowing and acknowledge students' names, acknowledges each person as an individual. It's also important for class members to know each other names, so they can work better together.
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Which of the following is not a way of creating a sense of community and purpose?
Mixing in work that does not have ouvert language goals, but aim at the group's interaction and the quality of their relationship.
Include activities that involve personal revelation.
Have ongoing group project that runs through a period of course.
Having students choose who they want to sit with, even if they always sit with the same classmate.
Which of the techniques can be used with mixed levels?
Dividing students according to their levels.
Having the class work on something together, and later on divide the class to do separated tasks.
Having tasks that are the same for everyone, but with different outcomes according to the level.
Allow students to choose what to do.
Ask the coordination to reorganize the class.
How to keep students engaged in large classes?
Making sure that you know all the students.
Creating systems for managing materials efficiently.
Improving the use of space to make it feel more welcoming and less crowded.
Staying always at the front so all the students can see you.
Creating mini-classes within the class.
Which of the ways is not a way to distinguish students as individuals?
Level of English
General abilities at academic subjects
Preferences for ways of studying
Physical atributes
Motivation according to topics and subjects
According to Scrivener "you can't motivate anyone".
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False
