MANAGING THE CLASSROOM

1. Using the voice : Perhaps our most important instrument as teachers is our voice. How we speak and what our voice sounds like have a crucial impact on classes. When considering the use of the voice in the management of teaching, there are three issues to think about.

2. Audibility : Clearly, teachers need to be audible. They must be sure that the students at the back of the class can hear them just as well as those at the front. But audibility cannot be divorced from voice quality: a rasping shout is always unpleasant.

3. Student talk and teacher talk : If teachers know how to talk to students, if they know how to rough-tune their language to the students' level as discussed above, then the students get a chance to hear language which is certainly above their own productive level, but which they can more or less understand.

4. Teachers need to consider how close they should be to the students they are working with. Some students are uncomfortable if their teacher stands or sits close to them.

5. Classroom Management

5.1. The teacher in the classroom

5.1.1. All teachers like all people, have their own physical characteristics and habits, and they will take these into classroom with them.

5.2. these include how the classroom space and organized

6. Proximity

7. Appropriacy

7.1. Some teachers are even happy to sit on the floor, and in certain situations this may be appropriate. But in others it may well lead to a situation where students are put off concentrating.

8. Awareness

8.1. This will be difficult if we keep too much distance or if we are perceived by the students to be cold and aloof because then we will find it difficult to establish the rapport.