How to manage teaching and learning? - created from Mind Map

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Mark the stages of a lesson

The teacher’s voice

The teacher’s physical presence

Evaluate the success or failure of our lessons

Different student groupings

Sitting arragement

Stages and changes of activity

It's important to

Get students' attention

Make students' aware

Beginning or ending of something

Start a class

Close a class

Provides a feeling of completeness

Most important instrument

Issues to consider

AUDIBILITY

VARIETY

CONSERVATION

Balance

Volume

Audibility

Vary quality and volume

Different activities

Different voices

take care of our voices

It's important to

vary our voices

breath correctly

avoid shouting

Physical characteristics and habits influence the management of a class

Issues to consider

PROXIMITY

APPROPRIACY

CONTACT

MOVEMENT

Closeness to students

Assess students’ reactions

Be conscious of proximity

Know the effects of physical behavior

Behave appropriately

Teachers need to make contact with students

Especially eye contact

Move to some extent

Retain students’ attention

Work closely with small groups

Get feedback

Try new techniques

Assess students' progress

Ask students

Invite colleagues

through simple questions

Encourage them to say how they feel

To observe and make suggestions

Evaluate them

Keep any type of record

WHOLE CLASS

GROUPWORK AND PAIRWORK

SOLOWORK

Work with the whole class

Any sitting arregement

The teacher has the students' focus

GROUPWORK

Advantages

Disadvantages

Cooperative activity

More equal participation

More language use

Greater independence

Teacher can work with individual students

Students may not like the group

Students may be more disruptive

Students work at their own speed

Allows thinking time

Consider individual needs and progress

ORDERLY ROWS

CIRCLES AND HORSESHOES

SEPARATE TABLES

Advantages

It's important to

Clear view

Eye contact

Ask in a random order

Keep everyone involve

Smaller classes

Less teacher-dominated

Horseshoes

Circle

Close to everyone

Feeling of equality

Everyone can share

Advantages

Disadvantages

Less hierarchical

More responsability for learning

Preference for colleagues

Whole-class is difficult