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Classroom Management in Language Teaching: Hitting the Right Notes

 

In this month’s vlog post for Pavilion ELT, Damien Herlihy continues his professional development series for 2021. You can see the introduction to the series here and look back to episode 2 on giving instructions in the English language classroom and to episode 3 on the magic of storytelling.

In this episode, he focuses on classroom management in the classroom. Good classroom management doesn’t just happen during the class but before and after as well. Find out how to get keep your classes on track and get the most value out of your lessons.

Also, please let us know how the series is making you reflect on your own teaching and/or what has worked well for you in the comments under the vlog or below our shares on the Pavilion ELT social media.

 

References

Lemov, D. (2015). Teach Like a Champion 2.0. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

Mourao, S & Ellis, G. (2020). Teaching English to Pre-Primary Children. Guildford: Delta ELT Publishing.

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Damien Herlihy
Damien Herlihy
Damien Herlihy has been a vlogger for Pavilion ELT since December 2019. His vlog posts draw upon his experiences as a teacher, teacher trainer and school owner, and take into account what his teachers have found most useful as well as his own learning experiences. His vlog posts have been in a number of themed series including: professional development; how methodology books have influenced his teaching practices; and the internet as a virtual textbook and cater to teacher and teacher trainers working in face-to-face, classes, teaching live online or doing a mix of the two in hybrid teaching. Damien has been teaching English for a little over 20 years, with 8 years of running his own language school in Thailand. He is a former IELTS-examiner, an award-winning teacher, and following his Masters in Teaching English as a Second Language, is also an online teacher, a journal article writer and a conference presenter. Alongside all of this, he has also been working on a website for students of English called English Riot and regularly writes blog posts, makes YouTube videos and produces a podcast for the site, and has juggled a move back to his native Australia.