What Teachers Should Do: My Sense is Back

It's cold, dude.

Yup. You read it correct!

As you know, I am an ESL teacher and it was very hard for me to teach my students although I've been educated taught teaching method for 5 and a half years in teaching. Well, you know learning is the tip and experiencing is
the lower level of an iceberg.

These past few weeks, I've sensed my motivation to teach has went down tremendously.

I thought it was because of the work. But, when I looked back, it's because of my sense of teaching was has lost. I've lost my purpose and I were was just doing routine and it was boring. 

Hence, after hours of researching on Youtube, I've found out my way of class management and teaching have stressed me out so much that I had several sleepless nights. How did I know that? Simple. I had no dream this past few weeks. Dream makes you feel refreshed  when you wake up.

So, here it goes. My founding findings of my research.

What I've Learned Learnt Today

1. Talk about their current talking topics.
2. Reinforce good behaviours.
3. Call out problematic students early.
4. Start class with TPR - I, You, Fast, Slow, Over, On, Under, High, Low, Long, Short, Nose, 
5. Give clear instructions.
6. Start class right away
7. Teach and give clear instructions (no confusion)
8. Slow learners sit close to the teacher.
9. Compliments. Compliments. Compliments. Complements.
10. Reward chart (stars)

Tell objective of the lesson first

A) Jigsaw

1. Divide students into group of 5-6.
2. Provide a box with different 5/6 categories.
3. Tell students to pick up their pencil and book.
4. Students with the same category get together.
5. The categorized students Students with same category discussed what they have got. They have to write notes based on their group discussion.
6. Students go back to their first group.
7. Students present their findings and discussion to their group.
8. Teacher write questions written by teacher on the whiteboard.
9. Pupils answer on their own.
10. Teacher discussed.

B) Rock Scissor Paper

1. Teacher taught vocabulary. (same category)
2. Pupils divided into groups.
3. Two groups race among themselves by using rock paper scissor while pointing to the picture.
4. Change groups. Repeat.
5. Pupils answer questions.

p/s. You can sense how stress affected me. My grammar and vocabulary were very bad in this post. The strikethrough words are the correct ones.