Guiding Principles of Teaching Young Learners

  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
Now, how do we do these things from a practical point of view?