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Chapter 20
Getting Youth on Your Side: Coping with Younger Learners
In This Chapter
▶ Focusing on young learners ▶ Telling stories
▶ Playing games
▶ Singing songs
▶ Connecting with teenagers
Teaching young learners – from toddlers to adolescents – is a somewhat different experience from the highly motivated and self-disciplined adult students of most lessons. So, in this chapter you get advice on how to make children’s lessons fun and stimulating.
Teaching Kids’ Classes – Dream or Nightmare?
When you’re offered the opportunity to teach children you may delight at the idea of singing songs with cute little pupils or you may envisage screaming, unruly terrors paying you no heed whatsoever. To be honest, you’re probably going to encounter both situations and sometimes in the same lesson. It’s up to you to decide, but if you take the job it’s good to start off by thinking about the way youngsters learn.
