So, today, I was a little stressed making sure I had a lesson plan this morning, and the first class I taught was somewhat uncooperative. They didn't really listen incredibly well and I'm still trying to figure out a more effective classroom discipline strategy for the class. Until now, I haven't really needed much. Usually, I can say, "Look at me," and I have taught them to respond, "Ok, I will." I also use the teacher stare. Those that are teachers or who have ever really worked with children, know what I'm talking about. The next two classes were much better, but I also did a little lesson plan tweaking.
During lunch, my co-teacher, Hee, helped me take care of some stuff. She is so amazing!! I want to spend more time with her, but haven't had time yet. She also just told me that she is pregnant, so she can't really go out and do much. Another teacher I work with is pregnant as well. She told me today that she has a cold, but she can't take medicine. That seems odd to me; is that odd?
After school, I had a tutoring lesson with Julie. I am slowly learning new phrases and hopefully will soon be able to comprehend better. We spent an hour or a little over an hour on textbook material and we spent another 45 minutes to an hour just talking. I like talking to her; she's really funny!
I had dinner with Kyung Chan, because my host mom was waiting for her husband and her son to come home. Soon, after dinner, I met with Howl, Julia, and Jia to go to a coffee shop. Howl has a car, so he drove us. It's nice to be able to hang out with Korean friends. We got home around 11:00PM. The only one still up was my host mom; she was reading a book with cheese and wine! ^^
*I'm way too addicted to Prison Break!!
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If you make an example of one of the kids by killing him, the rest will pay far better attention.
Something we do at the daycare is this: the teacher claps like this clap clap clapclapclap and then the kids respond in kind...it's effective in getting their attention. We also have a teacher that says something like Pay Attention! (I can't remember) and has the kids trained to respond Yes ma'am we will. Then we also have hand motions...like you say put a bubble in your mouth and stand with hands raised...you wait until the kids respond by pushing out their cheeks like they've just taken a big breath and their holding it in their mouth...the bubble in your mouth works well with older children at the daycare so it should work with your kids.
As for discipline...what are you doing now? We have several systems at school...we have time outs for the youngest obviously and then the Threes class has a ticket system where you start out with so many tickets and then lose them for bad behavior...if you have enough tickets at the end of the day you get a sticker and if you get all of your stickers for the week you get a "prize" from the treasure box. Then the older kids have the light system. They start on green, go to yellow if they misbehave and then go to red if they misbehave again...I'm not sure of an actual "punishment" after that but the parents make a big deal out of it, treat it like an office visit. So it's effective.
I hope this helps some or sparks some ideas for you.
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