VII. THE TOOLS OF THE TRADE

 Tools that I used in my class
Puppet: I used gloves to yield some dialogues, this helped students to put attention in class and feel comfortable in the class.
-Safety phrases card: I used phrases card to make a review of the subject that students already know.
-Toys: when we are teaching a subject like furniture house,it is better to use TOYS because you can tell them the name of the furniture and show them that way, it is easier for the student can learn.

 2- Useful tools:
· Puppets
· Paper Dolls
· Cardboard boxes
· Picture Cards
· Card games
· Panels games
· Word Prayers cards
· Display card Word
· Calendar
· Financing Cards
· Murals
· Toys
· Building blocks

All these tools are useful in our environment because they are teaching a foreign language. All these tools can help us to teach, and one of the most important things about it is that these tools are cheaper, and you can make them with materials you have at home. Those type of tools make students feel more interested in class.


3- useless tools:
· Pet Class
· English Corner
· Books / reading cards
· Transparencies
· Clock
· Maps
· Cassettes -

· Recording Cassettes-

-Overhead projector.

These tools are useless in our environment, and we are teaching a foreign language to students at an early age, and if you have a map in your classroom with rivers, streets and things, the students will feel frustrated because they are not going to understand anything, and this happens because they do not have the level to use it.

The first three chapters of my own practice

1- planning their work: children are usually full of energy; if you want students to learn a lesson and enjoy it, you have to plan the type and amount of time needed for each activity. Planning class, you will know what it necessary for each lesson, which make life easier because you already have a plan of what you do in your class. You can make a long-term or short - long-term plan.

Long-term plan: long-term plan will be carried out either before or at the beginning of the term, and you can do that before seeing his students:

· Talk to the parents that if it is possible.

· If you manage a textbook, you have to look through the list of contents and the teacher's guide.

· If you do not use a textbook, decide roughly what you want to cover this period and how long it will take for each item of the unit / subject / language.


Short-term plan: Once you long-term plan is done, then the short-term planning is easier, a short-term plan usually cover three to ten lessons:

· You may be planning lessons on a topic; the lesson plan for a unit in the book or the lesson of the week.

· If you are using textbooks, then much of the work at this stage is for you.

· Decide what items language to be taught.

· Make sure you know how resigned language elements are used.

· Evaluation form part of the teaching, so that you can write in the evaluation of their plan at this stage.

Note · Do not let your short term planning puts too much detail that i is only a rough guide.

2- Classroom management and the environment

We have formed our personality, but there are skills and attitudes which can learn and work.

· Skills: everyone can learn to mime or to act  easily. We can all learn to organize our worksheets that are planned and organized in sight.

· Attitude: respect their students and be realistic about what they can handle ; then your expectations are realistic too.

· As a teacher you have to treat all students equally.

· Atmosphere safe class: you have to know what you are doing. Students need to know what is happening, and they need to feel that you are in charge.

· Respect your students.

· Whenever the pupils are trying to say something, they accepted anywhere you say mistakes too.

· Desktop Fix: sometimes may not be able to change the shape of the tables are arranged in the classroom, and sometimes may have to make an arrangement that you can not change. You may want to arrange the tables in different ways for different classes, but it is much easier if you decide on the most appropriate arrangement for a lesson and stick to it.

· Children Association: it is important to note that not all children will like their partners and group work at a time. In particular, five and six years old are happier working alone, and are not willing to cooperate and share.

· Working in pairs: pair work is a useful and effective way of working in language teaching.

· The students, who are sitting close to each other, work together.

Establish routines for working couple, so that when you say 'now works in pairs', students know what is expected of them.

· Group work: everything that has been said about the pair work is applied to group work.

· We can not put the kids in groups, but you can give them an exercise and assume that it will work.

· If students are not used to working in groups in other classes, or if not naturally develop a group identity, and they can do when he sits on a permanent group, then you can gradually introduce them to work in groups.


3- Oral work: speaking is the teacher who teaches more demanding skill. In their own language, children are able to express emotions, communicate care or reactions, explore the language and make fun of him, so expect to be able to do the same in English.

· Introducing new oral language: when children begin learning English, they obviously have to give the language before he can leave. At this early stage, the activities will be under the control of the teacher.

· The use of puppets: one of the most successful in presenting language to young children is through puppets. Having "someone" constantly familiar in hand with which can have conversations about anything and everything; it is a wonderful way to introduce new themes and new languages. A way to have fun and at the same time they are learning.