Managing young ss without neglecting older ss?

Question

I'm a TEFL teacher with a class of children (4-12 y/o.) They're mixed ages, levels, backgrounds & personalities. I'm having a terrible time trying to deal with attention hungry 4 y/o ss that are disobedient. Meanwhile, I have a brilliant 12 y/o that fabulously participates & ss in between that are well-behaved. It's hard to give the in-betweens attention & nothing seems to work to discipline one of my onry 4 y/o! PLEASE ADVISE!!

Answer 1

Design lessons that allow the older children to teach the younger children. Heck, get them involved in lesson planning! Give the younger children a coloring activity or some other mindless work, and use that time to plan a lesson with the older students as the teachers. Peer teaching is one of the best ways for both the teacher and the student to consolidate their knowledge. Vocabulary is really easy for older students to teach to younger ones.

Other communicative activities like custom-designed information gaps can be structed in such a way that you can pair an older student with a younger student, and each is able to communicate at their own level. You also might want to get a book about task-based learning, which involves learning through real-life problem solving situations (read a bus schedule and plan a route, make a shopping list and actually go out and buy those items, etc.)

Answer 2

reward him with candy or nice words