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Any tricks to maintain students' attention?

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When introducing foreign language to a group of students with different levels of proficiency, how would you manage the difficulty of the material?
Would you water it down to suit the group who are less proficient? Try to go middle ground and hope the less proficient ones would keep up? Or would you split them up into 2 classes?

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I had these classes with higher proportion of students on lower level. It had been a problem for me to keep one or two of the smarter students occupied. It is also difficult for me to teach something which is deeper but is also corresponded at their age. If I insist to teach more contents to the students, it takes more time, the overall progress goes on very slowly. How can I balance the teaching speed and the contents?

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Am I asking too much for a full attention and attendance of my students (G3/G4) when I delivering a lesson?

I find myself easily get frustrated with any kind of situation during the lesson and that makes me feel so tired after each class.

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Is homework a must or does it help in a students learning after a long hour of learning in the school (8:15am-2:30pm)?

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I feel “heavy” to teach G4 Malay Language as compared to other classes G1/G3/G5.
Singing the same song, G4 showed lethargic. G3 showed excitement.
Playing at same game, G4 showed their moodiness.
G1 & G3 showed readiness and creativity.
Teaching them how to read and write, they showed frustration. G5 showed “I try my best “.
Why I feel that they are so “heavy”? How to improve?

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When I was not exist in front of my young children (sometime toilet break during lesson, sometime important meeting late to step in classroom 5 minutes or away when break time ), it was happened class was too noisy, children walking around, forgot abt the Sosial distance (no one meter distance but hugging and body contact).

I was created a ritual with the imagination, when old gnome is not around, all little gnome is with quiet mouth and stay at his/her own place.

Even It work well , but I am still try to be with children all the time including before and after school, break time and free time, a lot of time I am feeling exhausted after a day work with young children.

I need your idea, how to made children more aware of his/her mouth and body when speak, he/ she could manage the volume of  voice, when walking could be mindful of his/her step, when teacher is not around could be more alert and well behalf (and etc)?

Thank you.

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I have a few questions, if I may:
1.I teach a 40-minute language class and find it too short to really get our teeth into something and therefore allow the children to enjoy it fully. How can I structure it better so that I can give the children more?
2. How to deal with a child who doesn’t do what has been asked of him/her? What I’ve done is to let him/her be and focus on the ones who do, but does this disadvantage that child?
3. What tools can you suggest to bring a child’s attention back to the task at hand/class?

Thank you.

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Hi I would like to ask how can I have better class management for a class with huge gap/ difference in level between students of the same grade? How can I best manage my class to care for every student without some of them feeling bored (hence misbehaving) or left out (hence feeling hurt)?

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Chee Ying
Due to the pandamic, we run online classes, but some student did not attend and therefore there is a gap between those who attend vs not attend.

How do I manage those students who didn't attend online classes and when we get back to the school, they feel 'down',lack of confidence as he/she is not on the same pace as the rest of the class?

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I have a student who couldn't function well in a bigger class. My class has 25 students. He works well when one-to-one or in a very small group, but became very disruptive when in the whole class. All other subjects teachers are finding it difficult to work with the child.

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I know the importance of class management. However, for me, the theoretical and practical about class management are always different and it's not easy to deal and settle in the real situation. Children like us, we all are humans, we know and recognize people. Children are smarter than us too! I don't like to be tensed always in the class, I don't scold as I really don't like the anger atmosphere. So I'm difficult to control every students in a class to pay fully attention on my lessons. I have no much "Qi"(气）or I may say I lack of "Qi" since I was young. Even though now I still cannot cure myself. So I can't keep stand by with children to sculpture children. I don't expect all students focus on my lessons because everyone have their own interests and experts, I don't like the quietness of students because the class is not only 1 person. I'm good enough to be patient but I know the teacher who cannot well manage classes then he or she is unacceptable by School and may be parents. Thus, I really struggling and frustrated for more than 13 years, even worst that I'm getting afraid of it. Am I still qualified to be a teacher?! 😅

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Yuen
How do I deal with Melancholic students who sometimes struggle with their work or refuse to do in the classroom? Should I push them or let it go?

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How to deal with a high school students who are very tight about rules of the games or competition, and have no flexibility. Whenever she encountered such a situation, she would angrily defend her and insist that what she saw was correct.

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Is it ok or an right decision for Waldorf school to receive special need children who require special attention, care and technique while the school don't have teained special need teacher?

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Some children do not finish their homework. How to deal with this problem? One of the solution used is detention. Is detention for children not finishing homework align with the Waldorf education principle?

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1) How to help children to get involve in class , while he easy lost attention and need much more effort to pay back attention?  Will easy lost himself , even listen to you.

2) If I in the class, the class seems allright, but if I left the class, or other teacher taking care class, the class will seems lost all the discipline , talkactive and run around,like  Devil" , but they seems like angel in front of main lesson teacher. (Lower grade)

3) How to build up chidlren discipline . It related to moral teaching? If story could help build up moral , and it is slowly process, how about daily attitude?

4) How to help children who having different mother tongue with school. (Sikh study in Chinese school ) . How to help those children, manage him to social with other? and learning in group .

5)One girl in my class , want recognise from other friends, try to help other with her own way, if other doesn't follow her way, she will angry, and sad , and trying hard to let other listen to her. follow her. It make other doesn't want to make friend with her and deal with her . And , she getting extreme in two stream: one is sad and down, lost self-esteem. The other is angry easily, lost temper ,and giving more pressure to his peer. How could I deal

6)One middle grade chidlren will seems easy get irritated by other, and he will trick other . Easily get angry and burst , how to help him learn in class?

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I am a volunteer and teach co-curricular activities in one of the local school . My students are 12-13 years old whom I know personally and we have great connection when we are in a physical class. However online class is very frustrating. It is very difficult to get this same group of children to engage during class. So I came up with quizzes (Multiple Choice Questions) for them at the end of every class and the feedback I got from the children was good. All of them participated. Frankly speaking, I dont like this kind of assessment because the children need not think far for an answer - they just choose one of the ABCs; even though they got the answers right most of the time. When I ask them to elaborate their answers, I don't even hear a squeak from any of them. They refused to talk further... I had to drag the answers out from their mouth... and one word at a time... They will tell me that their internet is not stable... in their house it's too noisy to talk... some of them use handphone device for this online classroom, not easy to type in a chat box
(Somehow I do feel them - because online session is very weird and challenging)

1) Do you think that giving this kind of quizzes would harm their learning? Answers are there - they just pick one.

2) While doing the quizzes, the children are talking and discussing among their group members - I can hear how happy their voices are and teasing (lightly) with each other that ends with laughter and giggles. I thought that is good form of interaction - especially that they have not meet up physically for a while. Can I consider that this is one of the advantages of doing quizzes? They told me they like my quizzes and keep asking for it during every class.

I do give them homework for revision; not all of them will return to me - not even the smart / active students. Maybe because its just a co-curricular session in school. They would also tell me that they have loads of other school homework that need to be submitted.

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Mei ( higher grade -class 7 -10)

1)  2 students ( join for 2 years)  addicted in gaming . They physically joining  the class but we know they were  not there . If he likes you , he will pass up 50% of school works .
Some info of these boys
- every time after long talk with teacher , the situation would improve for 1-2 weeks . Then everything would go back to the same .

One of these boys
- every time, when we bring his  issues to parents..this 15 years old boy would has big fights with them . He even said he has no purpose to live in the family .

-   from what I understood, his childhood 0-7 ,was  staying with grand parents and aunties.. and they  pampered him as he is the first grandson of the family, having rather harmonious childhood.

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How could I sure that whether that I am forcing the student too much or he truly requires diverse learning, like reducing certain works.

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A class 4 boy, is under Waldorf education since kindergarden. Very sanguine boy, but when you ask him about main lesson or subjects, he always don't want to think, just came out" I don't know" three words only. But when the things happen to peels n classmates, he can remember all the small things about his friends! His observation to friends is so good so accurate. So I think he is not stupid, he is smart. But is it too smart?

How do we help him? What we as teachers could be to him?

Thanks!

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Pendamic now causes we have to use zoom to deliver our Grade 1 - 6 classes. But some students always not concentrate in their zoom class, even informed parents, but some parents also need to work from home, no time to always be with child.  How do we manage this kind of problems? Thanks?

For teens, the situations more challenges! They zoom in but still in bed, while teacher deliver class, they playing hand phone games...

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I understand sometime a class's class management not good is not because of students, but by teacher him or herself.

How about a class, the class management is good, not fighting, they sometime helping each other... but the teacher's teaching skill can't help the whole class to liftup or improve? Students don't dare or don't want to rise up their questions, always ask teachers how to do this do that, must follow 100% of instruction from teachers....is that also failed in class management?