The 5 Priorities of Classroom Management (Edutopia)

[ELTWeekly Volume 8, Issue 14 | September 5, 2016 | ISSN 0975-3036]


Ben Johnson says, “For beginning teachers, or for teachers like myself returning to teaching, the most difficult thing to master is classroom management. I had to relearn what ten years of hard instruction had taught me: Good classroom management is more than just being strict or authoritarian, and it is more than simply being organized. If I want to have my classroom run smoothly as a well-oiled learning machine, I have to set up a structured learning environment in which certain behaviors are promoted and others are discouraged.

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Creative Learning and Teaching with Readers (Cambridge Conversations)

[ELTWeekly Volume 8, Issue 14 | September 5, 2016 | ISSN 0975-3036] What’s in a story?… Incredible potential for creative learning and teaching. Getting students involved in the story, and…

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