Time flies when you’re having fun!

Optimising class

time

Teachers’ Seminar 2010

Session Outline• Time management – Personal to

Professional• Why do things go wrong?• Planning – How can it affect time

management?• Time “Wasters”• Time Savers• Rounding off

Time management

How often...a) are you late?

b) do you find yourself saying “I have no time for this”?

d) does it take you more time than

necessary to do things?

Why do things go wrong?

There’s too much time!Wait time

Students are not

engaged enough

RapportExtra Activities

Agenda / Debriefing

Why do things go wrong?

There’s never enough time!

Activities last longer than they shouldPace

Overambitious plan Discipline issuesToo much to be done Complicated activities

Planning

Remember! “A centimetre of input, a metre of practice!”

Formal plan X informal plan

Aims X Activities

Setting up the classroom

Plan is not a straitjacket

Long-term Planning

Plan of Work = Our BFF

Academic Calendar

Variety

Time “wasters”

HW Checking

Instructions

Preparing flipcharts

during class

Asking sts to come to e-B

Teaching and

teaching again

Reading the rubricsDealing with doubts as they come upDigressing

Time savers

Recycling

Use that stopwatch!

Checking in pairs

Improve attendance

Rounding off

Remember:

Long – term Planning

Time Projections

Adapt!

Thanks!

cintia.nogueira@culturainglesa.net