CLASS MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL - MANAGEMENT TIPS - FOLKLORE

• Start by being firm with pupils: you can relax later
• Get silence before you start speaking to the class.
• Control the pupils' entry to the classroom.
• Know and use the pupils' names.
• Prepare lessons thoroughly and structure them firmly
• Arrive at the classroom before the pupils.
• Prepare furniture and apparatus before the pupils arrive.
• Know how to use apparatus and be familiar with experiments before you use them in class.
• Start the lesson with a 'bang' and sustain interest and curiosity
• Give clear instructions.
• Learn voice control.
• Have additional material prepared to cope, eg with bright and slow pupils' needs.
• Look at the class when speaking and learn how to scan.
• Make written work appropriate (eg to the age ability, cultural background of pupils).
• Develop an effective question technique.
• Develop the art of timing your lesson to fit the available period.
• Vary your teaching techniques.
• Anticipate discipline problems and act quickly.
• Be firm and consistent in giving punishments.
• Avoid confrontation.
• Clarify and insist on YOUR standards.
• Show yourself as a helper or facilitator to the pupils.
• Don't patronise pupils, treat them as responsible beings.
• Use humour constructively

Discussion

1 Which of these tips seem most helpful ?

2 Are any of them positively harmful do you feel?

3 What are the uses and limitations of tips

Class Management and Control EC Wragg, MacMillan 1981)