ESL Chanting for Classroom Management

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for anyone who loves a challenge. You only need a degree in any field, and a TESOL or TEFL certificate to get started, after that, it's simply a matter of choosing the right school in the country in which you wish to live and teach. This can be done by surfing a few ESL sites and applying for a job online, waiting for a reply from some of the schools you've contacted, and then choosing the most appropriate position for you. You'll usually be able to pick and choose because you hold the trump card.So you've stitched up a great teaching job in Asia, well done! Maybe they have agreed to pay your airfare after a qualifying period, and help you with your visa and work permit. Hay! You've even got free accommodation. You're really excited, and so you should be! You're about to go to another planet and encounter all kinds of alien cultures and traditions, but remember, YOU are the alien, or commonly know as the westerner , or the foreigner .You enter your first class of 10 year olds. You expect everything to be the way it was explained in the TESOL/TEFL course you took. You have a super wiz bang lesson plan and the children don't even seem to care that you're in the room! You raise your voice (over the din) to get their attention, and that works, so you get into the lesson and find that many of the activities and strategies you thought would be a hit, fall flat. You have some success with some activities, and manage to finish the lesson in reasonable style. Good work! Now you realize that it will require some creative strategies for managing the situation, so you plan to come better prepared next time. This continues for several weeks, but you're getting worn down, and falling into routines of doing the same things that work best, more often in every class. You get so angry sometimes, with some of the kids that just cause trouble and don't give a dam about Cheap Rosetta Stone V3
your precious lessons. So much so that you've even resorted to slamming books, hitting the blackboard, yelling, screaming, and other boisterous techniques for maintaining control .Time to re-assess the situation, for the benefit of your sanity, and that of your students, you need a new game plan. Here are some ideas that have worked for me and MIGHT work for you also.First and most importantly, you need to get into the room with style while establishing your authority as the owner of the room, in a professional and positive manner which will impress everyone and give you the respect you deserve. TO GET RESPECT YOU MUST FIRST GIVE IT. I include details on how to get into a classroom this way, and increase student talk time, in another article entitled: ESL, Teaching the Silent Way, 99%STT. Now, assuming you can get into the classroom and gain the attention of most of your students for a few seconds this might work.Establish a set of expectations, draft them using target vocabulary and structures, and drill them as a pronunciation exercise at the beginning of each and every lesson. Your students are familiar with this technique because that's how they've leant everything since day one. You will get their respect and attention the first time you do it, and every time you do it. Also whenever you start to loose their attention during the lesson, you can quickly and easily regain it, while simultaneously having your students practice pronunciation and use target vocabulary/structures (without them realizing it).Exactly what, and how, to do it (don't be put off by the audio linguistic nature of what follows. Audio linguistics saved lives during the war, it works!)Introductory lessonStep oneConsider your class's overall level of receptive English language ability, (what most of them will be able to comprehend after an initial introductory lesson). Then, Rosetta Stone Italian V3
draft up 3-5 sentences, pertaining to your expectations, in the target language for this group.