Secondary Level EFL

Have a look at this videos from the University of Oregon - Shaping the way we teach English: Secondary EFL. It's the first part of the series - the rest can also be found on YouTube -

YouTube Edu - UOregon

There are a series of videos from the Universty of Oregon now available on YouTube. The course is called Shaping the Way we Teach English.

Here's the first video -





YouTube Edu

Behaviour Quick Fixes

Teachers.tv has a series of short videos offering quick tips on how to tackle common behaviour issues.

Behaviour



The issues dealt with are -

Can't Concentrate
Chaotic Start
Fighting
High Spirits
Disagreements
Disruptiveness
Transitions
Off Task
Anger

Here are links to full videos -

Teaching with Cowley - Starting Over
Primary Special Schools - Tackling Challenging Behaviour
Primary Management - Transactional Analysis
Behaving with Cowley - Out of the Classroom
Behaving with Cowley - Group Work

Edutopia

There are some really useful resources on the George Lucas Educational Foundation website Edutopia.

For example, there are some videos where teachers offer tips for better classroom management.

Handshake Q&A

Quieting the Classroom

Teachers TV

Teachers TV continues to grow. For those of you interested in behaviour issues have a look at their behaviour matters page.

Suite 101.com

Suite101.com offers lots of advice for pre-service teachers.

Here are some of their articles on classroom management and motivation:

Motivating Students

How to motivate students

Classroom Management Tips

There are loads of articles on this useful site.

Discipline tips

712educators.about.com has lots of tips about classroom management and discipline.

Top 10 tips for classroom discipline and management

How to handle discipline problems

Top books for discipline

The Dos and Don'ts of Tween Discipline

How to discipline without stress, punishment or rewards

Discipline and YLs

Kaboose is a website aimed at parents but contains some useful info and tips on child development and behaviour.

Have a look at the following articles -

Kids without a conscience

Understand your child's temperament

Stress and teens

Peer Pressure and Grade Schoolers

Behaviour website

Louise, YL co-ordinator here at IH Milan, has asked me to blog the following site on behaviour.

The site is Behaviour Needs

The site has some interesting articles about classroom management with provocative titles such as "If pupils misbehave, it's the teacher's fault!"

There are also inspirational posters and lots of useful tips.

Dealing with difficult behaviour

Here are some more videos from Teachers' Tv about challenging behaviour:

Changing challenging behaviour

This looks at the National Programme for Specialist Leaders of Behaviour and Attendance in the UK.
Policing Challenging Behaviour

We follow a teacher as she is trained by the police in how to deal with challenging behaviour!

Teaching with Bayley: Discipline

Behaviour management guru, John Bayley, visits school and helps teachers improve their classroom management techniques. There are lots of videos featuring John Bayley on Teachers' TV.

Some of the highlights:



MOTIVATION

Making pupils feel special and important - Video
Different learning styles - Video
Being more dynamic - Video
Giving praise - Video

GREAT TEACHERS

Motivating science teacher - Video
The Children's Champion - Video
Outstanding New Teacher - Video

STRUCTURING LESSONS

Time management - Video
Lesson structure - Video

DISCIPLINE

Dealing with disruptive pupils - Video
Dealing with short attention spans - Video
Controlling difficult pupils - Video
Dealing with unresponsive pupils - Video
Being assertive - Video Video 2
Dealing with attention seekers - Video

SEAL

What's seal? SEAL is an approach that examines the Social and Emotional Aspects of Learning.

The five touchstones of SEAL are -

Self-awareness
Empathy
Managing feelings
Motivations
Social Skills

For an in-depth look at SEAL in UK secondary schools look at the SEAL website. You can download a huge amount of material from this site - PDF guides, slides, videos, training guides, etc., etc. Information for primary level is also available on the SEAL website.

Have a look at this video from the William Howard school to see SEAL in action:

Teachers' TV:Seal

Discipline

Here are three articles on dealing with discord by Rose Senior from the ETP magazine.

Article 1

Article 2

Article 3