Classroom management

What are common areas of classroom management?

Grouping and seating, activities, authority, critical moments, tools and techniques, working with people

Activities, authority

Tools and techniques, working with people

critical moments, grouping and seating

Teacher talking time is time when learners are very involved and are doing very much.

True

False

What are the advantages of using gestures?

Intuition that teachers use depends on previous experience and the way they interpret the situation in the present moment.

True

False

What are the main external factors that influence learners?

The family, learning expectations, approval, teachers' behaviour, success and failure

The family, teachers' behaviour, self-esteem.

Approval, success and failure

None of them are correct

What are three things that teachers need to remember about establishing norms in the classroom?

What does the rule "focus on the behaviour not the student" means, when teachers need to modify problem behaviour?

Learners share the same emotions due to whole-class grouping, therefore it pulls a class together.

True

False

When circle and horseshoe sittings are used...

Students might share feelings and information through talking.

Learners share information and feelings through eye contact.

The groupwork is easy to arrange.

Learners share feelings and information by using body language.

Individualised learning is likely to be less stressful, and is used to restore peace and calmness in a classroom.

True

False

The classroom during pairwork is not noisy, and the chances of misbehaviour are very low.

True

False

What are the factors that affect how seating arrangements can be changed during the classroom?

The task

The mood

The learning sequence

The task, the mood and the learning sequence

What are the main disadvantages of using streaming for creating groups and pairs?

What can teachers do with students, who finish the task earlier than others?

Give them time to relax.

Stop the activity for the whole class.

Ignore it, and focus on other students.

Give them challenging task-related extensions (tasks).