- Known exactly what you are going to teach.
Class lessons need careful preparation helps hold the interest and therefore keep the class under control. To present new knowledge, be clear about each step and about how one step connects with the next step. To teach a skill, be sure to know the skills into practice.
- Organize thoroughly.
Everything that is going to be used in the lesson must be ready at hand. This saves times.
- Make the best use of all apparatus you can get.
The more closely the teaching is connected with life, with real things both living and non-living, the better. The best teachers use plenty of apparatus.
- Teach the whole class.
Every pupil should have a fair share of the teacher’s attention and do a fair share of the work.
- Try to be calm and natural.
Careful preparation and organization and a real interest in what is being thought are the best aids to self-confidence.
- Remember that the test for class teaching is class working.
The first job of the teacher is to stimulate activity in every pupil in the class. In preparing lessons think carefully what the pupils are to do in every lesson.
- Make full use of the children’s knowledge.
Many lessons begin by finding out from the children what they already know of the subject. As the lessons go on, get the children to use their own knowledge to help them cooperate in what will be accomplished.
- Make use of the routine where routine is helpful.
There should be a habitual way of doing routine such as cleaning the blackboard, opening windows, etc., a settled time for doing them, and a regular way of deciding who is to do them. This saves time and effort.
- Observe and expect pupils to observe common politeness.
- Let the class cooperate in keeping order.
Class discipline is difficult for that may teachers much help on keeping order can be obtained from the children themselves, once they are of school age.
Every class to works and behaves better for some measures of self-government must be based on a careful consideration of the kind of children. Of their stage of development and of the conditions in which they live and work, both at home and at the school.
By: SUNSHINE S. SALALILA T-11, Jose C. Payumo Jr. Memorial High School Naparing, Dinalupihan, Bataan
