Little Victories

We talked about this in class. The following are categories of heuristic language that teachers use. Remember, heuristic language is "the language used to talk about learning, understanding another language." It's a kind of 'meta-language.'

 Starting and finishing the lesson 

 Giving instructions 

 Asking questions and eliciting 

 Using classroom management language 

 Correcting students 

 Presenting new language clearly 

Now, the task for us is to list the language patterns that fit under these categories. Any one want to help? Please comment below.

1. Get to know your audience.
2. Build into your lessons and curricula various activities that activate the different channels of learning.
3. Summarize the lesson at some point.
4. Short activities
5. Concrete activities
6. Familiar activities
7. High-interest Activities (be careful that boys and girls really do have different interests at these ages)
8. Interact with students in feedback, before and after class, and during class. (but how?)
9. Warm atmosphere
10. Positive atmosphere
11. Establish classroom discipline
12. Strong communication with parents
13. Give parents tools too!
14. Effective diagnostics
15. Field-trips with a purpose
16. Teachers need to be fearless