Ça suffit! Enough is Enough. Classroom Management and

Teaching French Miss Kelsey Lademan Albion College 2012Jackson High School

Importance of Foreign Language Education

Developing skills needed to prosper in 21st century

Cognitive benefits of foreign language study Academic benefits Benefiting low-income children

Specific Skills in Learning French

Reading Writing Speaking Listening Cultural Knowledge Responsibilities

Philosophy of Teaching Fostering a community of learning - Constructing a safe environment - Maintaining mutual and self respect - Promoting student-student interactions

Why Classroom Management?

My student teaching experience Jackson High School - Target class: French 1-A (2nd and 4th hour) - French 2-A and French 3/4-C One challenge after another - Consistently disrespectful - Classroom set-up

In other words…

Discipline: Consequences versus Punishments

Punishment: - Does not serve as a learning purpose. Consequences: - Constructive outcome: an end result of a child’s

inappropriate act.

“I can wait” Planned wait time - Students quiet themselves - Students become leaders - Lesson moves at a faster pace “Even though it seems like you are wasting valuable

instruction time waiting for students to be done speaking out of turn. When in fact, planned wait

time will eventually increase the time you have to teach.”

“Notes again? We always take notes in this class!”

Problems I encountered • Students not taking notes

My solution  - More engaging methods of note taking • VoiceThread • ‘Engaging’ PowerPoints • Bring my personality to class

Des verbes en –ER!

Objective: Form more complex sentences by using regular –ER verbs.

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Verbs ending in -GERManger – to eatJe

Tu

Il/elle/on

Vous

Nous

Ils/elles

mang

mang

mang

mang

mang

mang

e

es

e

e

ez

ent

onsI eat / I am eating

You eat / You are eating

We eat / we are eating

He/she/one eatsHe/she/one is eating

You eat / you are eating

They eat / they are eating

Mang The stem!er

Other verbs conjugated like manger

Changer – To change

Déranger – To mess upTo make

a mess

Corriger – To correct

Échanger – To exchange

Encourager – To encourage

Voyager – To travel

Student Responses Not a single head was down that day.

Miss Lademan has tricks. I’m taking

notes!

I cant remember the last time I took notes in here.

This be obnoxious, Miss Lademan. And everyone is

laughing.

VoiceThreadhttp://voicethread.com/?#u3218729.b3579870.i18709480Method of review Ability to circulate the classroom Engages the interest of studentsAdheres to the needs of different types of learners

Student Responses

I didn’t get what we went over yesterday and people weren’t talking during your video today so I understood it better.

You’re notes are a little too fast and this went slow enough that I understood.

This wasn’t very helpful because I understood the notes on definite and indefinite articles that we took yesterday

It was cool. It’s nice having something new.

Bring ‘Yourself’ to the Classroom

I am unique and I bring my personality every day to my classroom.

“Mademoiselle Lademan. You’re like, right out of a Harry Potter

book.”

“Miss Lademan… more like Miss

Badaman.”

“I can relate to you. I feel like there are so many teachers I can’t relate to, but you are yourself an that makes me feel more comfortable in class.”

Communication Establishing relationships Highlighting strengths before, and after

addressing weaknesses Proactive counsel I CARE. I did CARE. I will CARE. I CARE

The Big Picture Foreign language study benefits the

generations that will soon be running our more globalized nation.

In order for students to develop foreign language communication skills, they need to be involved in a positive learning community.

Un remercier aux… Fritz Shurmur Center for Teacher Development- Albion

College Department of Education - Suellyn Henke, Kyle Shanton, Michael Rosseler Albion College Foreign Language and French

Departments Albion College Psychology Department Jackson High School Mrs. Pamela Nordhougen- French department chair for

Jackson Public Schools Family, friends, and all support systems

My students

Tabb, Gwen. Conference. Oct. 2012. Feild Observation and Conference.

Pamela, Nordhougen. Conference. Oct. 2012. Field Observation and Conference.  

A Rationale For Foreign Language Education A Position Paper of The National Council of State Supervisors for Languages (NCSSFL). 2012.