Teaching Small Groups
Small groups have their advantages. THere are many things the teacher can use but there are also some things to be aware of. This show covers some of the advantages and disadvantages of working with small groups and some activities and ideas to help you out.
Game of the Week: Cells
Here’s a pretty simple word game that’s fun and requires little preparation. Just printout this gameboard and hand them out to the students. This is a great warm-up activity for older children to adults. Enjoy!
January 10th, 2007 at 4:06 pm
[…] I recently listened to a few of the podcasts on the main page, including Small Groups and Motivating the Motivationally Challenged. There were plenty of practical tips for situations that most teachers can relate to, such as kids who don’t pay attention. Their advice depended on age: for younger kids, keep them in suspense for more of your slap-stick behavior (kicking the wall and nearly falling over) and sneak in bits and pieces of what you need to do. Don’t come with the expectation that you should spend the full time focused on English as you might with adults. For slightly older kids, the slap-stick stuff becomes less important, but still essential is engaging them with intrinsically motivating games – not games that simply aim to produce English sentences for points, but fun ones in which the use of English is a necessary tool for doing whatever they need to win. […]