Classroom Atmosphere

Recently, I read an article about how important is that your classroom tells a story and attract students’ attention and curiosity.

Always is necessary create a good atmosphere at class, but in my opinion is more important when in addition you are going to teach in a foreign language. Learn in another language cause some stress in students, so a relaxed and comfortable environment it’s needed to achieve that students speak and ask questions without fear.

What makes a safe environment it’s a combination between good behaviors (teacher-student, student-student) and classroom decoration.  

You could thing that decoration is important only for pre-scholar, but a good decoration in class always increase visual stimulation, and as a result, they learn without notice it.

For example, you could make posters in your class with the commons polite forms to ask questions, maps abut countries you are talking about, objects related with the topics of the subject (like bills of different countries if you are talking about international trade), curiosities, news, pictures about famous films… And you can also put the names of the objects right next to learn new vocabulary.

All decoration should be done it with a purpose, which is provoke natural conversations around it.

I recommend you to read that article that could give you some ideas about how to decorate your classroom and why:

Click at the picture to go to the article.

Be creative, your students will thank you!