​ Teachers, have you ever faced these problems in your classr | Grade Teacher Training

​ Teachers, have you ever faced these problems in your classrooms? How did you solve them?

Students hijack the lesson

Tell students that if they finish their work, they can have a few minutes at the end of the class to talk about whatever has them so excited. Or tell them that you have already planned the lesson/activity, but that you will certainly include their ideas next time.

Students speak other languages in the classroom

Turn it into a game for YL, for example, and give rewards/points for completing the tasks in English. For older students, an English speaking marathon may work well: every time you come to the classroom write down the time when you started and finished speaking English, for example, 21 December 10:00-10.45 am (45 minutes). Do not erase the records for a month. Let your students see how much time they have been spoken English for a month, a year, a week.

Students depend on the teacher

Your task is to show the students they can do it. Use scaffolding and praising, differentiate tasks by levels.

Students don't do homework

Give them a choice of tasks. For example, if you planned to give 5 exercises, tell them they can choose to do 3 which they want. Or, if you planned to give 1 task, let them choose between 2 or 3.

Students are bored or unmotivated

They can be bored with the course book. Select other materials or adapt those from the book.
They can be bored with monotonous classes. Add more games, competition, change interaction patterns.
They might have no goals for learning English. Talk to your students and try to find out about their learning goals and needs, set examples of successful stories (for reading or listening), use tasks which can demonstrate their progress.

Don't leave anything to chance.

Enroll in our TKT Module 2 preparation course in January to learn how to anticipate and solve different problems that might arise in an English classroom!