Classroom Management
Classroom Management
- The EA should assist in classroom management by:
- marking the class register on a daily basis;
- keeping records/registers of subject attendance;
- following up with parents when learners are absent;
- filing correspondence from parents and doctors’ certificates;
- assisting in the distribution of LTSM resources (e.g. textbooks, exercise books, workbooks, posters, wall charts etc.) provided to learners at the beginning of the year.
During the Lesson
- The EA:
- ensures that learners follow the teacher’s instructions;
- distributes worksheets or any other resources to be used by the subject teacher during the lesson;
- establishes, where possible, problems that could be created by non-detection of learner challenges like poor vision or difficulty with hearing;
- observes, monitors and supervises class activities and raises the teacher’s awareness of the need to intervene and troubleshoot where and when necessary;
- helps the teacher to assign roles to group members, ensures that all participate and reports instances of dominating to the teacher;
- circulates during the group sessions to offer guidance, records anything of note and brings it to the attention of the teacher;
- assists learners during class discussions and group work by providing clarification where necessary;
- supports learners with reading activities;
- aids learners with skills of writing essays, transactional texts or paragraphs;
- guides and supports learners (under the supervision of the teacher) for each writing piece through the following steps: pre-composing, planning, drafting, editing & proofreading, presenting & sharing;
- lends a hand to learners with dictionary usage and
- supports the teacher to ensure that activities are completed within specified timeframes.
- During the execution of the lesson, the EA:
- supports the teacher with managing class activities as follows:
- Jigsaw: Helps the teacher to divide the class into groups, supervises Home and Expert groups, supports the teacher to guide discussions and monitors how learners teach their section;
- Buzz groups: Supports the teacher to create a non-threatening learning environment in which learners can freely share ideas with a partner, pair, small group or a third party;
- Pairs: Assists the teacher to get two learners to work as pairs, ensures that the two are fully engaged, that interaction with each other takes place, checks and consolidates their learning;
- Brainstorming: Supervises and guides learners as they generate as many ideas as possible in a given timeframe on a given topic, issue or situation and ensures that everything is recorded;
- Questions and answers: As the teacher poses questions to learners, the TA notes learner responses to questions, checks understanding and gauges learner progress for post lesson reflection with the teacher;
- Gallery walk/ Inter-group activity: Guides learners under the supervision of the teacher to:
- gather information on a given topic;
- display their work;
- engage in a gallery walk;
- nominates one member to stay with the displayed work;
- share information.
- supports the teacher with managing class activities as follows:
After the Lesson
- The EA:
- collects resource materials or learner books for control, marking, comments on learner performance and signature by the subject teacher;
- provides learners with notes to help summarise the lesson where necessary;
- notes the learners with content gaps for assistance during intervention classes;
- ensures that learners who are learning through the medium of an additional language are supported in accordance with directives given by the teacher;
- supervises informal tasks/ workbook activities/ enrichment activities/ remedial work/ home work for reinforcement;
- meets regularly with the teacher to reflect on the progress of learners’ content knowledge and skills acquired in preparation for the formal tasks and
- encourages Additional Language learners to write diary entries about the lesson content as part of expanded opportunities to write.