Lesson 13. Anticipating problems (including ways of dealing with disruptive behaviour) Objectives

Lesson 13. Anticipating problems (including ways of dealing with disruptive behaviour)
Objectives:

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  to give participants an opportunity to experience anticipating problems through examples as future teachers
  
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  to raise awareness of the different types of anticipating problems which they can come across during the lesson;
  
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  to help participants explore the features of anticipating problems.
  

Time: 80 min


Material: Handout 1.

Lead in (5 min)

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  Ask participants what kind of problems can occur during the lesson:
  

Possible answers: noisy classroom, lazy students, not enough knowledge, class size, language errors…

Presentation stage:
Handout 1. Article on Types of anticipated problems in the lesson.
Problem: Students don’t want to participate.
Solution: Establish a competition between the students, divide whole group into small ones and create an environment in which they feel the need and responsibility to participate, also this activity helps to foster group work.
Behavioural
Problem: students don’t understand the instruction.
Solution: make a demonstration, exemplify with students that understand easily the activity.
Situational
Taking to account
Linguistic: Common mistakes or errors during develop of lesson.
Behavioural: Troubles with special students or responses in students performance.
Situational: unexpected situations in the cotidianlly life in schools
Problem: students get distracted of the activity.
Problem: There are not technology materials.
Linguistic
Solution: Teacher will make a transition activity, that involve movement and get students attention.
Anticipated problems might be the presupposition problem you guest will occur in your class.
Problem : students left their chairs
Solution: if your students gets out of their seat often to do so much things as sharpen her pencil or ask the question, you might give their a limited number of tickets and require that their give you, one when their wants to leave the seat. When students runs out of tickets, they will not allowed to leaves the chair.
Example
Solution: print images, flash cards, sing a song without a tape recording, bring extra material to the classroom.

Practice stage: Ask students to fill the Fishbone organizer with the causes and consequences. Students can use examples which they wrote in Lead-in stage.


Production stage: Ask learners to think and write anticipated problems which they come across during their teaching experience. Ask students to find solution to some anticipated problems. As a future teacher, they should know how to solve problems.