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Teaching Large Classes
Resources
The world wide web is a great place to add depth to your learning, and we believe that the best students will read around the topics to improve their understanding. To help you with this, we have scoured the web to give you a list of the best links out there for each module.
Preparing to teach a large class
Teaching large classes: Idea thinktank
Advantages and challenges of teaching large classes, strategies for managing a large class and activities to use.
Tips for large classes
Lots of tips for meeting the challenges of teaching a large class and making the experience enjoyable and memorable for you and your students.
Staying in control of a large class
How to grab students’ attention and other tips for managing a large class of students.
Teaching large classes of small children
Advice for teaching English to large classes of small children in situations where classroom resources are limited, with several example lesson sequences.
The Teaching Large Classes project
The Teaching Large Classes project was funded by the Australian Universities Teaching Committee. Check out the Resources, Guidelines, Case Studies and Bulletin Board sections of this site for a variety of information, suggestions and links that may be useful to the large class coordinator or teacher. The site is not, however, designed for EFL teachers and contains theory and examples of teaching other subjects to large classes.
Time management for ESL teachers
Useful advice on managing time spent on lesson preparation and class administration.
Learner levels
Classroom management: teaching mixed-ability classes
Advice and suggestions for teaching English to multilevel classes.
Collaboration and grouping students
A group forming activity for EFL/ESL students
This short information gap activity helps to increase discipline, energy and cohesion within a classroom before important group tasks. It is particularly helpful for large classes.
Group formation
Tips on group formation contributed by teachers from around the world.
Team English for large classes
The practical aspects of dividing students into groups or teams.
Teaching multi-level classes
How to determine students’ needs, choose strategies and select materials. Includes a few ideas for collaborative activities in a large multi-level class.
Classroom management
Managing large classes
A video produced by the University of Oregon examining planning, classroom organisation and teaching techniques to help manage large classes.
Teacher positioning in the classroom
Advice from the British Council/BBC Teaching English site of particular relevance to a large class.
Student engagement and motivation
Ideas for large classes and different ways to approach content
Listen to an American teacher describe his experience of teaching large classes in China. How does he get his students to speak English?
Assessment and feedback
Assessing large classes
Methods and principles of assessment and providing feedback to large classes.
Examples of activities for a large class
Tips and suggestions for teaching large classes
Some tips and activities for classes of up to 150 students.
15 activities for large pre-school classes
How to adapt 15 most popular pre-school English games and activities in smaller classes so that they become the most popular activities in large kindergarten classes too.
Activities for large classes: teacher forum
Participants of this forum suggest activities for a large class which they have found useful in their teaching.
Resources
The world wide web is a great place to add depth to your learning, and we believe that the best students will read around the topics to improve their understanding. To help you with this, we have scoured the web to give you a list of the best links out there for each module.
Preparing to teach a large class
Teaching large classes: Idea thinktank
Advantages and challenges of teaching large classes, strategies for managing a large class and activities to use.
Tips for large classes
Lots of tips for meeting the challenges of teaching a large class and making the experience enjoyable and memorable for you and your students.
Staying in control of a large class
How to grab students’ attention and other tips for managing a large class of students.
Teaching large classes of small children
Advice for teaching English to large classes of small children in situations where classroom resources are limited, with several example lesson sequences.
The Teaching Large Classes project
The Teaching Large Classes project was funded by the Australian Universities Teaching Committee. Check out the Resources, Guidelines, Case Studies and Bulletin Board sections of this site for a variety of information, suggestions and links that may be useful to the large class coordinator or teacher. The site is not, however, designed for EFL teachers and contains theory and examples of teaching other subjects to large classes.
Time management for ESL teachers
Useful advice on managing time spent on lesson preparation and class administration.
Learner levels
Classroom management: teaching mixed-ability classes
Advice and suggestions for teaching English to multilevel classes.
Collaboration and grouping students
A group forming activity for EFL/ESL students
This short information gap activity helps to increase discipline, energy and cohesion within a classroom before important group tasks. It is particularly helpful for large classes.
Group formation
Tips on group formation contributed by teachers from around the world.
Team English for large classes
The practical aspects of dividing students into groups or teams.
Teaching multi-level classes
How to determine students’ needs, choose strategies and select materials. Includes a few ideas for collaborative activities in a large multi-level class.
Classroom management
Managing large classes
A video produced by the University of Oregon examining planning, classroom organisation and teaching techniques to help manage large classes.
Teacher positioning in the classroom
Advice from the British Council/BBC Teaching English site of particular relevance to a large class.
Student engagement and motivation
Ideas for large classes and different ways to approach content
Listen to an American teacher describe his experience of teaching large classes in China. How does he get his students to speak English?
Assessment and feedback
Assessing large classes
Methods and principles of assessment and providing feedback to large classes.
Examples of activities for a large class
Tips and suggestions for teaching large classes
Some tips and activities for classes of up to 150 students.
15 activities for large pre-school classes
How to adapt 15 most popular pre-school English games and activities in smaller classes so that they become the most popular activities in large kindergarten classes too.
Activities for large classes: teacher forum
Participants of this forum suggest activities for a large class which they have found useful in their teaching.