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KMK: Classroom Management – 5-4-3-2-1

July 5, 2009December 31, 2015 Brian Dye1403Leave a Comment

So now you’ve got your Engl on the blackboard. Your kids know your rules, but like all kids they slip up and slide toward that cliff of obnoxious ruckus that children all around the world have mastered. What do you do? You could just snatch up the eraser and make a letter disappear or you […]

KMK: Rock Scissors Paper

June 29, 2009December 31, 2015 Brian Dye15232 Comments

In South Korea rock-paper-scissors isn’t just a kiddy game for preschoolers. Nope, it’s practically a national pastime. Unlike back home in the states where an occasional instance of RPS happens every so often if the circumstances allow, in Korea, people use RPS so much so that I’d be surprised if someone somewhere isn’t playing every […]

KMK: Classroom Management – English Points

June 10, 2009December 31, 2015 Brian Dye4664 Comments

So, last time we talked about classroom rules. Today I’m going to tell about the system of punishment for breaking those rules. Every day at the beginning of class I write the letters ENGL on the blackboard. During the lesson if students misbehave I’ll erase a letter. They hate that. You should hear the wails […]

KMK: Classroom Management – Rules

June 9, 2009May 2, 2017 Brian Dye13544 Comments

When I first started out teaching English I found my biggest hurdle to be classroom management. I was a total softy. I saw the kids and thought, “How can those cute little kids do anything wrong?” Well, I learned fast. Those cute innocent faces turn into snarling grins if left unchecked. Unruly kids hardly contribute […]

KMK: Classroom Activities – Flippy Cup

June 3, 2009September 30, 2019 Brian Dye589Leave a Comment

I thought I would start a new segment on the blog featuring activities I do in the classroom. Sometimes coming up with a fun activity to help the kids process the target language for the day’s lesson can be daunting. So here is one out of my hat. Flippy Cup Basically, you take the drinking […]

KMK: Avalon

June 2, 2009July 30, 2012 Brian Dye5455 Comments

I have breaking news, or rather it’s breaking for me, about my old stomping grounds Avalon English. I just read on two different blogs about Avalon’s new “guidelines” concerning Swine Flu. Leave it to my ex to give swine flu hysteria fertile ground to flower. The scoop on both TheMetropolitician and Brian in Jellanam-doportrays Avalon […]

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