The importance of the contents to manage the classroom.

Wow, this is the end my friends, this is one of the last entries of this blog and each and every day I discover a new topic to talk about and I learn new things about this profession. In this case I will talk about the importance of classroom management and how contents can affect to this.

During my practicum II I could see how difficult it was to me sometimes, and also to teachers with years of experience in the area, to manage a class. I think that it is very important to work classroom management from day one, when you arrive at class the first day of curse you should make your students clears what you expect from them and how they should behave. In order to make this process easier, it’s appropriated to establish some rules in class, to work respect in class to the teacher and to the rest of the students and learning to work appropriately. So to accomplish the mission of keeping under control your class you should also take into account that not only you’re making easy your daily life by keeping the heat of the students down but also you’re making their daily life in the school easy, that is why is important to get their opinion about what they enjoy doing the most how can they keep their anxiety under control and what’s their idea of a perfect class.

So, with that being said, one of the main points you must be successful at is about choosing the right contents for your students, but also offer them the best methodology to learn those contents and to pay attention in class. Therefore, we, as teachers, must offer our students contents useful for their life outside the school, we should give the opportunity to interact, give their opinion, being listened, participate in the development of the class and see that they’re the center of the process known as learning. So if we are able to make our students participate we can manage to perfection the class, because their feedback means attention to what the teacher is saying but also means knowledge, it means learning and it means start a process of metacognition by creating their own knowledge with their interventions.

So, to sum up, while we’re doing class first we must find contents attractive and useful to students, for example it’s more useful for them knowing how to buy a bus ticket rather than knowing which is the sound the cockroaches do. In this way, it’s more useful being able to express themselves orally in English rather than knowing when should we double a consonant when we’re doing word formation, as we have learnt our mother language, we should learn English and speaking and interaction should be a process that occupies at least the 75% of the time dedicated to an English class.

I hope you liked this entry, I promise the last one it’s going to be really interesting!