Orientation Workshop

Communicate
Respect others clearly Listen to
opinions others

Share your
Workshop rules Keep your
phone away.
experiences

Be active Take notes

Warm up Activity

Something we share
Your expectation……
Story Time……
What’s the problem?

How could you tell?

Why do you think

Ahmad faced this
problem?
What comes to your mind when you hear
“classroom management”?
What is classroom management?

A set of strategies that a teacher creates and

maintains in order to establish effective learning
environment and promote students behavior in
classroom.
Strategy (1): Create a motivational
environment
Use motivational words, positive words to praise good work and behaviour.

• great idea, good job, fantastic …..etc.

Use actions to praise students

• high five – clap your hands up to 10

Show your students all of them can learn

• Decorate the classroom with students’ work and projects whenever possible.

Use attention-getters

• teacher: 1,2,3 eyes on me. Students: 1,2, eyes on you

• teacher: hands up. Students: everybody stop) (1 clap -2 clap) (don’t clap this one back)
Set rules, boundaries and expectations.
Sample classroom rules

Elementary Level classroom rules Preparatory level classroom rules

• Raise your hand to speak.
• Only one person speaks at a time.
• Ask for permission before you leave the
classroom.
• Keep your hands for yourself (don’t fight)
• Ask for help when you need it
• Do your own work
• Respect your friends and teachers
• Respect the property of others.
Remember…….

Teaching is not shouting

Strategy (2): Make every minute count
Plan each lesson in advance. Well-designed lesson plans have clear learning objectives and
provide meaningful activities for students to reach the objective.

Keep everyone engaged

Use Active learning strategies

There are different types of learners

“You hear and you forget, you see and you
remember, you do and you understand.”
 Remember……….

A minute without work is a

moment for talk.
There is a strong relationship between classroom
management and student achievement, and the
most important factors which affect students learning
are classroom management and teacher’s behaviour.
Now you are the classroom management
expert…give an advice to this teacher
20 minutes break
Jigsaw Reading
What is “Jigsaw Reading”?

It’s a cooperative learning strategy that helps

students with their reading comprehension, it’s a
multi-step strategy that involves the use of home
groups and expert groups.
Jigsaw Reading in steps
Home Group 1 Home Group 2

Home Group 3 Home Group 4

Experts Groups
Why to use “Jigsaw Reading”?
It is very efficient for learning new materials.

It encourages cooperative learning and collaboration with classmates.

It allows students to be experts and teachers.

It can help improve listening, communication and problem solving skills.

In Jigsaw Reading each student represents an essential piece of the jigsaw puzzle and
when they work together the puzzle is complete.
Challenge Time
Cantraktishoots come in different colors and
sizes.
My old cantraktishoot is broken.
Since it was raining outside, I used my
cantraktishoot to keep me from getting wet.
Thank you
Lesson Planning
Enabling objectives:
They are stepping stones (supporting objectives) to terminal objectives.

Enabling objectives should be SMART

Specific measurable Achievable Relevant Timed
 Specific
Specifies precisely what the learner will know or be able to do.

Measurable
 Can be evaluated

Achievable
 Students are academically ready for the objective.

Relevant
 Builds on prior knowledge- related to the topic

Timed
 Students can achieve the objective within the specified time
Examples:
By the end of the lesson, students will be able to categorise words by using the
prefixes re, in and un.
By the end of the lesson, students will be able to write to explain cause and effect by employing
connectors such as consequently, therefore and as a result.
By the end of the lesson, students will be able to identify and accurately pronounce the
short i, o, and long ou (as in found) vowel sounds.
By the end of the lesson, students will be able to enjoy and respond to the creative use of
metaphor in a song.
By the end of the lesson, students will be able to distinguish similarity and difference through
the use of comparative and superlative adverbs in an article.
Examples:
By the end of the lesson SWBAT:

Answer questions related to an article about historical sites in Jordan within 10 minutes.

Use past tense verbs correctly to talk about historical places.

Predict the meaning of new words from the context.

 Language

Pre-learning while learning

(vocabulary, structure, phonics)

It’s your time to plan
Thank you for attending

Safa’ Obeid