APPLIED LINGUISTICS for BA Students in English
PARTICIPANTS OF LEARNING PROCESS
Teacher’s roles, teaching styles
Organizer
Organizing students to do various activities is one of the most important roles that teachers have. It involves giving the students information, defining the work forms in the classroom and organizing teaching material. Skillful classroom management involves the following areas:
- organizing the environment – it means decorating the walls of the classroom with culture-related posters, maps, flags etc. and arranging the desks and chairs so that the students can learn in different work-forms (in group-, pair-work etc.);
- organizing the children – according to language proficiency or language abilities;
- organizing activities – so that the ideal balance of skills and activities should be maintained. After each stirring activity a settling activity must be planned, and various skills should be developed in different work-forms;
- organizing time – in an average lesson maximum five minutes must be devoted to a warm-up activity, which is followed by the so-called 3Ps (presentation, practice and production with about ten-fifteen minutes spent on each). The last period of lesson is to be spent on revision and giving feedback to the students;
- organizing resources – is as important an area as the ones mentioned previously, because all types of teaching material such as the course book, the workbook, handouts, cassettes etc. must be kept in a well-organized way so that the teacher can use them smoothly without making a chaos;
- organizing records – is considered to be a crucial element of classroom management all the teachers have to think of as their handling not properly can have legal consequences as well;
- organizing yourself – is the last but perhaps most important element of organization as all the teachers are human beings and not machines with a lot of private problems their students cannot feel. Before entering the classroom, teachers should leave their problems outdoors and focus on the work taking place inside.
