Next week starts the next semester at the middle school I currently work at. This will be my fourth semester as an ESL teacher, but only my second at this school. The start of the semester is the best time to implement new classroom ideas & strategies. Here are the two main things I want to work on:
1. Write down specifically what each class has finishes. This may seem like a no-brainer but it will take a bit of will-power to actually remember to do this because most classes are around the same place. The only reason I want to do this is to avoid repeating certain sections of a lesson because students are too shy to tell me we already covered it last week.
2. Remember more names! I teach 400+ students a week. If I can learn 100 student names, I will be ecstatic! What I plan to do is take pictures of all my students and turn it into a laminated picture book - like a yearbook but in English and divided into smaller sections - so I can identify names with students on the spot, quickly.
2. Remember more names! I teach 400+ students a week. If I can learn 100 student names, I will be ecstatic! What I plan to do is take pictures of all my students and turn it into a laminated picture book - like a yearbook but in English and divided into smaller sections - so I can identify names with students on the spot, quickly.
Taking fashion week into the classroom, err kind-of.
I'm excited to get back teaching next week. I have a new group of 7th graders coming in and I know a few of them are really excited to be in my class! :)
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