WHAT SHALL I DO WITH NON-LEARNERS?

Today's post is for deep overthinking and analysis of your strategies in motivating students. So, be ready for a long reading.

Why do some pupils are eager to learn, while the others aren't? The answer to this question has found Carol Dweck in her book MINDSET. THE NEW PSCYCHOLOGY OF SUCCESS. 

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Shouting at children doesn't work

I'd like to share the article by Paul Dix, an expert in Behaviour Management who explains why shouting at children is counterproductive for learning.

Fight or Flight


The Amygdala is a small nut-shaped object that sits in the middle of your limbic brain and controls your response to threat signals. In a very real sense, we have two minds – an emotional mind and a rational mind – but the emotional mind is dominant. It responds quickly to signals and sends out hormones to stop the rational brain thinking, deliberately. Man sees a snake, before the man can work out whether the snake is a dangerous one, whether it’s about to rear up and bite him, the Amygdala triggers. It sends blood rushing to the hands to fight and rushing to the legs to run and escape.

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CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT. YOUNGER LEARNERS

 

 There are special tricks a teacher can introduce at the lesson, that may help for some time. BUT it's not the remedy and sooner or later they won't work too. In this case it would be a good idea to ask or help a more experienced colleague-teacher at your school.
Anyway, these tricks may help you for the start and can make your lessons more attractive for your younger pupils.

Here we go....

1. Bouncyballs. 
It's a program in the internet that you can use to controll the limit of noise at the lesson. You will need a computer with internet connection and a microphone. The balls that you see in the picture start bouncing when the noise is increasing. So, the louder are the students, the quicker the balls are bouncing. You can change the theme from plastic ball that you can see in the picture to smilies, bubbles or eyeballs. It can work as a reminder for the pupils that it becomes noisy and they have to calm down.

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BACK TO SCHOOL. CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT

A new school year is comming and all teachers are surfing the Internet or making up their mind what they will do at the first lesson with their pupuls. My today's idea is DON'T BE IN A HURRY TO ENTERTAIN THEM at the first lesson. Think that on the first lesson depends a lot in their behaviour at the lesson and their attitude to you. So, it's high time to set the rules and maybe even sign a goup contract, as we all perfectly know how the lack of discipline at the lesson ruins all your aims, plans and ideas you were so eager to realise? And how frustrated and unwilling you may feel to teach because of that.

 But how can you set the boundaries?

 

 The secret is in you - this is what Carol Read says. For me she is a great specialist in primary English language teaching. Moreover, I teach from her books at school and find them highly professional. Her ideas are really precious and I'd like to share them with you.

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