Chapter 20

Chapter 20: Getting Youth on Your Side: Coping with Younger Learners

with Younger Learners

In This Chapter

▶ Focusing on young learners

▶ Telling stories

▶ Playing games

▶ Singing songs

▶ Connecting with teenagers

T

eaching 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.