Classroom Structure Plan

Classroom management is an essential part of teaching young lerners.Here is  sample class structure plan that can help any teacher with classroom management.

GREETING	It is important to start the class in a positive way. In order to achieve that, teachers should greet students and start the class with a song, rhyme or chant to get children ready for the lesson.	Teacher: Hello children! Children: Hello teacher! Teacher: How are you today? Children: Fine! (thumbs up) Teacher: Let`s sing the Hello song HELLO SONG
DATE AND DAY	Before starting the lesson, it is important to establish the date (number of the day, month and year) and the day of the week. The teacher may ask what date or day it is and students may sing different songs so that they can answer to the teacher`s questions.	Teacher: What is today’s date? Children: Today is June 2nd, 2015. Teacher: Excellent! And what day is it today? Let’s sing the day of the week song! DAY OF THE WEEK SONG Teacher: So… What day is it today? Children: it is Tuesday.
HELPERS AND ROLL CALL	Teachers should designate the helpers of the day and take the attendance. As regards helpers, teachers may have a chart on the wall in which it is already set who are the helpers on each day of the week. So, when they establish the day, they can also know who will be the helper that day. Those helpers of the day, can also be the roll callers .	Teacher: Ok, children. Look at the helpers chart. If today is Tuesday, who are the helpers today? Children: (looking at the chart, they read aloud the names). Teacher: Great! Tuesday helpers, can you check who is absent today? Children: Is (John) here today? Yes! I`m here! /No, he is absent today.
THE LESSON  (The lesson is the lesson plan of a required textbook for a specific school, or it can be a lesson plan created by the teacher based on the school`s curriculum.) + ATTENTION GETTERS + BRAIN BREAKS	It is really important to prepare certain strategies so as to get the children attention during the lesson. Attention getters are useful to start an activity, to finish an activity, or just to get children attention. Brain breaks are as useful as attention getters: both of them help to keep students on task and keep the pace of the class.	ATTENTION GETTER Teacher: Touch your nose! Children: (Touch their noses) Teacher: Touch your feet! Children: (Touch their feet) BRAIN BREAK (After a difficult activity, to keep children from getting frustrated or bored: sing a popular song)
CLEAN UP AND HOMEWORK	After the lesson, and before ending the class, the teacher should have a designated time to clean up the classroom and to assign some homework, if any, to students.	CLEAN UP Teacher: Children, it`s time to put everything in order. PUT AWAY SONG HOMEWORK Teacher: Children! For next class you have to bring pictures of wild animals. (She gives children a reminder to paste on their notebooks)
END OF THE CLASS	The end of the class time should be marked with an established routine: using a song or rhyme to say goodbye.	GOODBYE SONG Teacher: Good-bye children! Children: Good-bye Miss Annie!

The most important thing is that every song or chant used in routines, should give students authentic language that they can use in real life, for exampe, when saying hello or good-bye to any person.