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Activities that encourage good classroom behaviour
Submitted by suzannem on 6 August, 2011 - 13:07
Keeping your learners motivated will lessen most classroom management issues. So let's share ideas about how to motivate learners.
One tip I have is that you make sure that you give praise to all the learners when they do something well and in particularly when they behave well. A child who is disruptive in class can easily get used to being 'told off' and getting praise can come as a shock to them. This alone can have a dramatic effect on their future behaviour.
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First of all I want to thank you for sharing your ideas with us.In fact I do praise my students as often as I find a good reason to do this.Mostly I praise them when they do something well concerning the lesson.To be honest I should praise them when they behave well.In that way they'll be encouraged to keep doing this.
Praising good learners is a good tool to enhance students for better improvement.However we should be careful that when this happens, there are some students, though they do not deserve praising, try to attract teacher in order to convince him/her to pay attention to them. If this occurs and we do not do something to fill this gap in their behavior we may discourage them and it leads to misbehavior in the class room. Some students cannot tolerate praising other students. Maybe we have to praise occasionally the weak students too to avoid this case to happen in the classrooms. Sometimes I have to talk to these kinds of students after the class, giving them reasons for praising good students.
Sometimes praising students isn't enought, especially when you're working with young learners. Every teacher should know that good classroom behaviour is very important in ELT. I want to share how I deal with disruptive students. I've got a Good Behaviour Chart for every student. It's a piece of paper with pictures of rabbits. One rabbit is for one lesson. If students' behaviour is good I draw a smile on it. If behaviour is not so good or bad there isn't any smile. My young students like it very much. And it really works. Everyone wants to have a smiling rabbit.