Preparing New Teachers to Manage the Modern Classroom

Classroom management is broadly defined as the wide variety of skills and techniques that teachers use to keep students organized, orderly, focused, on task, and academically productive during class. A teacher’s skills as a classroom manager are vital to being an efficient and effective teacher, no matter how knowledgeable a teacher may be on a subject. However, while most college curriculums focus on pedagogy and curriculum-building skills, most do not place explicit focus on classroom management strategies. This leaves many teacher candidates feeling ill-prepared to manage a classroom upon leaving academia. This paper explores the necessity of creating a college-level course dedicated to merging academic theory with research-based practices as they are performed in the field in an attempt to further prepare teacher candidates for the realities of modern classroom management

THE ENGLISH LITERACY DEVELOPMENT AT ISLAMIC HIGH SCHOOLS: AN EVALUATION

English literacy is a captivating topic among language scholars, educators, and learners. English literacy culture in Indonesian schools still has been in dismaying condition. This study aimed to unveil hindrances and relevant solutions to realize the English literacy atmosphere at three state Islamic senior high schools (Madrasah Aliyah Negeri) in Sumatera Utara. Observation, in-depth interviews, and documentation were swiftly executed during the data collection process. Participants, consisting of five English teachers from three different State Islamic senior high schools, were willingly recruited to be interviewees. The data afterward were analyzed based on thematic analysis. Results highlighted two factors decelerating the English literacy environment at schools. Moreover, six crucial ways were unmasked for accelerating English literacy at school into positive progress

The impact of integrating Jolly Phonics Lessons application into English literacy lessons on UAE preschoolers’ phonics skills

The Jolly Phonics Lessons application is a digital tool that is designed to enhance the preschoolers’ reading and writing skills through synthetic phonics approach. This study examined the impact of integrating Jolly Phonics Lessons application into literacy lessons on the emergent reading and writing skills among kindergarten students, ages 4-6, in the United Arab Emirates through a comparative study between pupils (Group-A), whose literacy classes were integrated with the application, and pupils (Group-B) who were taught using the traditional method of teaching literacy. Mixed methods research design was followed to analyze the effects of integrating the application. The Phonemic Awareness Assessment Inventory (PAAI) tool, field notes, and artifacts were utilized to measure the development of students’ letter-sound identification, letter formation, phoneme blending and segmenting abilities. In addition, the paper compared the growth on phonics skills between students in Groups A and B. The results showed that students in Group-A outperformed pupils who received literacy instruction through traditional methods. The findings from the PAAI scores exhibited dramatic growth in letter-sound recognition and letter formation, and substantial increase in phoneme blending and segmenting abilities of Group-A. The T-statistic for differences between two means at 95% confidence revealed that there is a significant difference between the performance of students in Groups-A and B. Implications from this study highlight the positive impact of incorporating Jolly Phonics Lessons application into literacy classes on low-achieving students. On this bases, future research of Jolly Phonics Lesson application to support mixed-ability classes or students with dyslexia

Using games as techniques to teach English as a foreign language

The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of games as improvement techniques in the English teaching-learning process. The study attempted to answer whether the use of games in adolescents has a beneficial impact on the English learning process or not. The research was carried out through the following steps: Firstly, the observation of the explanation of the class given by the base teacher and Secondly, the application of games in the development of the English class where an observation guide was used by each student and an interview with the teacher, the type of research was mixed since quantitative and qualitative data were analyzed for the realization of the paper, where Excel was used for the representation of graphs, the results showed the effectiveness of the use of games to significantly increase the acquisition of the English language in the adolescents. In the research some games are recommended like: flyswatter, hangman, crosswords puzzles and others to engage student