Ideas & Skills for Success with Preschoolers
Do you want to have orderly classes filled with happy children learning and practicing English?
My absolute favorite age group to teach is preschool children between the ages of 3 and 6 years old. Nowhere else do I get to sing as many songs, play as many games, be as silly, or just have as much fun as when I’m with little learners. They bring tons of energy, enthusiasm, and openness to learning. Honestly, I can’t begin to recall how many times I left my lessons with them feeling happier and more energized than when I started my lessons.
It wasn’t always that way, though. When I first started with this age group more than 15 years ago I found them to be confusing, frustrating, and exhausting. And they didn’t like me very much either. I just didn’t know what to do with them. And unfortunately, at the time, there weren’t many resources online for me to access. I struggled with them for months and months without much satisfaction.
The truth is that teaching preschool children (ages 3 to 6 years old) is a unique, challenging, but also extremely rewarding part of the EFL/ESL industry. The students in this age group are very different from adults, teens, and even primary school children. So, we need multiple skill sets of specialized ideas and techniques that are best suited for this age group.
One critical skill set is for effective classroom management. This keeps our classes organized so students know what do and how to succeed so everyone can have a great time in class. And, it is especially important in English as a Foreign/Second Language (EFL/ESL) classes because our children are learning in a language they don’t understand and often with cultural differences on top of that.
Sadly, though, most general English teacher training programs (CELTA, TESOL, TEFL) don’t spend any time on preschool children or even much time on classroom management. Maybe they include the basics like how to teach vocabulary and grammar, how to write a lesson plan, and some games and activities – but are those even appropriate for very young children? What does a CELTA (Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults) say about how to keep a classroom filled with twenty 3 year-olds learning and behaving well?
For more than a decade I’ve worked with hundreds of teachers who wanted to improve their teaching and classroom management skills . They were frustrated because they weren’t able to achieve everything they wanted in their classes. Sometimes they had noisy, chaotic classrooms or students who couldn’t focus. Other times they just seemed to run out of time because it took so long to organize activities. Or they wanted to get students to put in more effort.
And I know how they were feeling because I felt that exact frustration many years ago as a new teacher.
Fortunately, after years of experience, research, and practice, I’ve found a set of practical ideas and techniques that have helped me and hundreds of other teachers organize our classes and enjoy better lessons. These ideas are focused on understanding our students’ needs and abilities, and then using effective techniques to meet those needs and use those abilities so children behave well in our classes.
Now, I’ve developed a classroom management course on the popular learning site, Udemy.com to share these ideas with you in an easily accessible format.
This 6.5 hour course is for English as a Foreign Language (EFL) and English as a Second Language (ESL) teachers with anywhere between 5 and 30 preschool school students between the ages of 3 and 6 years old.
After you purchase the course you can watch the lectures at your convenience. This course will provide you with the ideas and techniques you can use to successfully manage your lessons, your students, and their behavior. It will help you better understand your students, their needs, and why they misbehave. It will give you concrete, actionable suggestions for how to build better relationships with them, help them behave well, and create an environment where they want to get along with you and their classmates. It’s also packed with pdfs that will help you think through the issues and create your own plans.
After finishing this course you will be confident & comfortable going into your classes with little learners.
Classroom Management Intro Video
Who is this course for?
This course is designed for EFL and ESL teachers of preschool children who want effective, positive, non-coercive methods for creating productive learning environments by understanding their students and meeting their needs.
This course is designed especially for EFL teachers with less than three years of teaching experience, though more experienced teachers should find it useful as well.
This is not an entry-level TEFL certification course; you should already have a teaching degree or a TEFL/TESOL/CELTA certificate to get the most out of this course.
This is a lecture course meant for a wide audience in any country and it doesn’t have lots of advanced vocabulary, but teachers should have strong English listening skills in order to easily follow along.
How much does Classroom Management for Teaching Preschool EFL/ESL cost?
This course is listed at $49.99 on Udemy.com. However, you can get a big discount through this site for just $12.99 (depending on purchase currency) until October 16th, 2024. Just use the promo code WEB-PROMO-09.24 at checkout or click any of the yellow links on this page to have it automatically apply.
You will receive permanent access to this course and you can watch it as many times as you want.
Do you live in Vietnam but you don’t have a credit card that works with Udemy? Send an email to Will.Herr@StarTeacherTraining.com to use a bank transfer instead.