Tackling New Comers and Others In A Classroom

 

Children are young and definitely adaptable. Students who have to shift to another school either due to job transfer or other calamities find it difficult to adjust to the new environment.

Students who are extroverts might not face substantial challenges during the shift to another school as they are social and can adapt to new changes yet might take a little time to get adjusted.

However, the introvert students who are either fussy or do not mingle too much, change of school is not a joke at all. The child might get drawn to herself or himself. It might also lead to behavioral problems and more complications.

To add fuel to the fire, the child might also find it difficult to pick up the concepts taught in classes and might take a long time to get adjusted.

Nevertheless, a good school with effective teachers will see to it that the child gets adjust in a fortnight or a month.

A lot of activities related to socialization like team work, circle time, class meetings etc. will definitely enhance the child's morale and help the newcomer get adjusted to the new environment. This will also attain a co-operative class without effective classroom discipline and team spirit.

During the first few months of joining, a lot of emphasis and priority must be given to the newcomers by class teachers till they get adjusted to their schools, classmates and teachers.

As children are in other words very young adults, therefore, skills to socialize using Circle Time, Team Work, Class Meetings should be emphasized consistently so as to build their social and communicative skills.

Strategies to Make Classroom Interesting

 

Effective classroom discipline is effortless when a teacher has well-planned structure of her lesson plans wherein even a single minute of her 40 minute period is not taken for granted. Following the following lesson plan structure and strategies, children get engrossed and become highly attentive in the classroom.

Moreover, when a class room is managed or teaching is executed using the below five activities, it grabs the attention of the all types of learners.  This is especially true for primary and elementary school students whose attention span do not last for more than 10 minutes at a stretch for a particular concept.  So, by inculcating the habits of incorporating these five activities for one period that lasts for about 40 minutes, will bring in effective classroom management and make every child deeply interested and committed to the theme taught. These five activities are:

1.   Preparatory Activity:

The Preparatory activity could a preparing activity so as to hold the attention of your classroom. This could last for about 2-5 minutes with a warm up exercise, aerobics, or narrate a poem or rhyme or a meaningful song related to the theme or subject.

            2.       Supporting Activity:      

                        The Supporting Activity could be a relevant activity that could support that day’s lesson  or topic to be covered. It could last for not more than five minutes.  This activity could be even a recap of previous day’s portion eliciting answer from all children one by one.  Or it could be asking meanings of particular text, define terms or phrases taught previous day or even in a chain story or events of topics covered the previous day.

                        3.       Learning Activity:

                        This is the activity where the actual learning for the day takes place. You could start with everything you wanted to be taught this day and could last for about 15 minutes. This is also the time for children to clarify doubts related to the topic or concept taught today to ensure learning is complete and, is being understood by students.

                        4.       Evaluation Activity:

                        This is an activity where in you may ask questions verbally, or in writing by giving questions on the board or by distributing worksheets pertaining to the topic taught that day.  This could last not more than 10 minutes.

                        5          Closure Activity:

It is a very short one where in the recap is done and wind up for that day’s learning.

Always remember the golden rule of making every child involved in activity. For e.g. if the class has a strength of 25 students, an effective teacher would utilize 5 students each for each of the above activities in eliciting the answers thus ensure all the children in the class have participated in her teaching session of one period.