1. Know Thyself
- What are your personalities?
- What can you bring to students with these personalities?
- What goals do you set for yourself?
- Are you sensitive enough to detect reasons behind students' behaviors, not just punish them right away?
2. Your Language
- i-message (individual)
- we-message (class) eg. Let's begin our class. Let's be quiet.
- talk to students' homeroom teachers, English teachers, parents, people related
- plan your lessons based on the students' learning pace; no need to follow their original class
- Ice breaker
- get to know one another:
Draw your picture in the middle with name. And then put down several keywords. Ask the students to come up with questions that fit the keywords.
eg. Q: When's your birthday? A: September.
And finally ask students to draw their own and share with the class.
- class rules
- communication book: design your own, use small notebooks (half communication book, half practice)
- Feedback: words, verbal (both English & Chinese)
- Make small talks during breaks & after class
- write the students' names on blackboard for points calculation
- write the word on blackboard
- one student stand in front of the class without seeing the word
- three students act out the word at the same time
- the one student has to guess
- make a PPT, with word-to-test in the middle, "mood," "action," "person," and "place" in four corners
- ask students to answer
- ask one student to help with computer when you're hosting the game
- Example: We're going on a bear hunt
9. Learning Community (學習共同體)
- A group of 4: 2 boys 2 girls; 2 high 2 low achievers
- teacher's role: support
- discuss quietly
- Finland education:
+no standardized testing
+no drop-out students
- How successful countries do:
+high status & investment in teaching positions
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