There will be a time in your class when you are on top of your lungs and no one seem to notice... You will be wondering why, out of frustration begin to nag or get angrier until the time is up and you are relief to be out of the classroom... I learn the hard way to get attention from my pupils. and...
We always hope that our classroom activities are enough. I dreaded when pupils yell "I have finished my work, madam!" Sometimes I prepared extra work prior to class. Other times I asked them to be junior teachers, coaching their peers. or I gave them toys to play, help me with class management, silent reading, group play with the flash cards, you name it,...
For second language teachers to be effective in the classroom, they need to plan their way. Maximizing the time for total exposure of the language in class will benefit the learners especially the ones acquiring it as second or foreign language. While teachers routinely plan for their lesson, aligning the objectives and the activities, some failed to notice the language that they use...
