Thread: Teacher-student ?? and mind-reading

Same thing, I've learned that getting into a screaming match with a room full of 10 year olds is futile. If they want to talk over me, I stop teaching. Enough of that, parents start to get wind of it, they go to my boss. When he has my back, the good students either drop or transfer. What's left, after a few months, is a class that is unteachable. And we all accept that, and just phone it in. Works every time.

Quote: Originally Posted by Quixote Ditto for me. Pretty much describes the first five to eight minutes of every class I have, once they are all in the room and sitting. Once I'm over that threshold, it's usually pretty good afterward. It's usually only one to three minutes for me - probably the one to three minutes after the bell it would take a typical Korean teacher to come to the classroom. One thing that I find helps...

Quote: Originally Posted by Yu_Bum_suk It's usually only one to three minutes for me - probably the one to three minutes after the bell it would take a typical Korean teacher to come to the classroom. One thing that I find helps sometimes is to start right off with a bit of listen-and-repeat. Even if there's not a great deal of educational value in it at least it gets them all doing the same activity together and makes it easier to...

With the Saudis, I often let THEM get each other under control. I explained to them once that I was there to help them make as much progress in English as possible, but that I couldn't do it for them--they'd have to make the larger part of the effort. Now, when they get too goofy or someone is just not paying attention, I just stop talking, sit down, and wait. The ones who really want to learn look around to find who's not...

The simple explanation is you unconsciously foam at the mouth when you start getting angry.

Quote: Originally Posted by Yu_Bum_suk If I had a dollar for every time I had to repeat what page to turn to... 'All right, go to the lesson 9 dialogue on page one hundred fifty-four, one-five-four, bek oh-ship sa, one hundred fifty-four' ... a minute later a student looks up at me and says 'what pagie'? That's what the blackboard is for ^^ peace,