To implement P. 1 to P. 6 small class teaching, the school established routines for activities (using the same slogans / hand signals), grouping methods and classroom grouping arrangement.
(a)Classroom Routine Slogans
Small eyes watch teacher. Small mouth does not talk.Small hands put in the right place. Small ears hear carefully.
Small back keeps straight.
(b)Common Commands
To keep quiet (Teacher clips hands 3 times, raises the right hand and cover the mouth with left hand. Students should keep quiet automatically.) |
1、2、3 |
One, two, three |
To watch teacher |
“ Little eyes, |
“ Little eyes, |
To begin discussion or to start working |
Teacher clip hands three times. |
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To temporarily stop instruction |
Teacher says, “Ting Tong, Ting Tong” and raises right hand. Students stop talking and raise right hands. |
One, two, three |
To end the discussion or stop working |
Use timers and keep quiet commands |
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To encourage |
“Good, good, good, very good!” |
“Good, good, good, very good!” |
To cheer up |
“Clip”, “Clip”, “Clip”, “Clip, clip, clip, YEAH!” |
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(c) Roles of group members
Each group member has his/her unique role.| Position | Position |
Duties |
Group Leader |
Group Leader |
To lead the whole group |
Assistant |
Assistant |
To observe how the group members cooperate and how they spend time, manage the discipline and encourage them to participate |
Secretary |
Secretary |
To record answers and suggestions of group members and check the level of knowledge that group members learnt |
Envoy |
Envoy |
To receive and distribute materials to group members |
During a group activity, students performed different roles and adopted a division-of-labour approach to finishing their class activities.
Students used their creativity to draw colourful pictures.
During a group activity, students worked cooperatively to finish mathematical equations.
