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The teacher’s role is to catch the interest of the students and to give them confidence. Getting the students involved in the lesson will also helps to prevent most of the disciplinary problems. The first thing is for the teacher to try to know his students. Knowing their name is of course necessary to get their attention or indicate who is to answer the question, but the teacher should also try to know their surroundings. The students will be more willing to participate if the topic has been careful chosen to fit their interests. Making sure that the relation between the students is also good will create a good working dynamic. The students will be more motivated to communicate if they know each other, more comfortable to answer questions in front of the class, and they will be able to help each other in group works. The teacher could use an ice-breaking activity at the beginning of the course. Just make sure that the students are using english langage and not their mother tongue to communicate. Managing a class is also making sure that you are listened. To convey messages, eye contact gesture, and voice are really important. The teacher should be aware of how his attitude is essential to established good rapport with the students. Eye contact will help him to encourage participations, ensure the student’s understanding, or help maintain discipline. The teacher should always remember to encourage the students, using eye contact, gesture or voice, because confidence is a very important factor in a good learning process. Gesture can help to explain the meaning of language, as well as to add visual interest. Voice is naturally changing according to the size of your classroom or the numbers and ages of the students; but a greater variation of you voice will also helps to prevent boredom and misbehaving. The teacher’s position will also have an impact on how the students are listening. To give instructions, it is always better to stand, while sitting is preferable for reading activities. The teacher should be careful when using the white board as it is easy to loose the student’s attention. To reduce the time spent turning his back to the student, the are many ways. The teacher could use an overhead projector instead, write when the students are focusing on a different task, make them write on the board for you, prepare the board work in advance etc All this will help the teacher to give clear instructions, and therefore, help keeping the lesson on tracks, and avoid loosing the student’s attention. When giving instructions, the teacher should use a lower langage than the one taught, speak loud, slowly, and clearly; use the same set of words for the same instructions; give on instruction at a time, and give demonstration of what is asked. Finally the teacher has to make sure the instructions has been understood, by making them explaining it back to you. To keep the students’ attention, the teacher should find the good balance between teacher talking time and student talking time. Listening to the teacher is essential to be exposed the the english langage, but the teacher should always try to maximize the students’ participation. To avoid unnecessary teacher talking time, keep it simple, don’t over-elaborate, use gestures, mimes or pictures. Sitting arrangements can also take a part in the classroom atmosphere. Orderly rows is the traditional sitting organisation, it is also the best choice for big groups as it helps maintain eye contact with the teacher and prevent misbehaviour. With smaller classes, circles can be a good option as it helps students to be in contact and communicate while keeping the teacher in a central and leading position. Separate tables can be used for groups activities, and allows the teacher to walk between tables, monitoring the students without disturbing them. The teacher should always remember to be polite, punctual, enthusiastic, treat the students with respect, stay flexible, and make varied and interesting lessons. Students will learn better if they enjoy the lesson.
