Hello everybody!
This is Nusrat Jahan, Lecturer, Dept. of English, DIU. With all other faculty members, I attended the workshop on "Finding ways to help our students develop English Language Skills" on June 22 from 3pm to 6pm. It's always enjoyable attending such workshops. We were talking and sharing our classroom experiences and thus we were actually trying to find out some ways to give our best to the students. Our main concentration was the students of Level 1 term 1.
We were divided into three groups and I was in Group 1. In this group, Ms. Fatema Begum and Ms. Shamsi Ara Huda were also with me. We, the trio, proposed the following points to be stressed for classroom management:
1. Knowing individual students,
2. Motivating them towards English,
3. Identifying the weaker students and arranging their seats,
4. Encourage them to participate in conversation,
5. Maintaining noise-free teaching environment with interesting teaching materials,
6. Introducing language inputs ( news paper, poster, story books, e-books, websites etc.)
7. Making students respond,
8. Introducing pre-reading activities,
9. Extended activities must be encouraged ( Home work, assignment etc.),
10. Presentation should be given importance,
11. At the end of the class, let them to sum up the topics covered,
12.Using technology in the classroom.
We focused on classroom management that can ensure a better learning environment and we think better environment in classroom can break the ice between new students and teachers and It will certainly create an opportunity for the students to improve their communication and expression skills.
Nusrat Jahan
Lecturer,
Dept. of English