Prof Analia Loevenguth-Carlsson
Prof Laura Carlsson
Teaching High School and College
Two perspectives
College
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Using contextualized vocabulary
- Making connections
- Keeping material current
- Giving constructive feedback
High School
TEACHING FOREIGN LANGUAGE
How to motivate students
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Rewarding students for their work:
- Giving credit for everything
- Activities to earn extra credit
- Show them respect in working at their own pace
TIP: compositions in class. Use blue book for multiple compositions
TEACHING FOREIGN LANGUAGE
CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT IN HIGH SCHOOL
- To ensure attention of all students:
- No shushing or yelling
- No talking while any students are talking
- Practice being an effective public speaker
- In high school, a big part of classroom management= discipline
- When lecturing "rowdy" students, talk to them calmly, respectfully, let them talk, don't stay mad or judge for behavior
What does a day in your classroom
look like?
- GROUP WORK
- Knowing each other from the first day
- Respecting each other
- Learning in workshops
- CLASS STRUCTURE
- Benefiting from being familiar with each lesson
- Creating lessons with varying activities
Tip: Select members of the group by grade levels. Make sure that in every group there is an "A" and an "F" student
