Like almost any other classroom routine, attendance-taking need not be a mechanical routine, but can be used to get your students talking and thinking - to each other as well as to their teacher - in order to start their class in an active and engaged mood.
So here are 5 interesting varied ways the T can make
use off to take attendance in her class and make her students be engaged at the
same time. Note that the T can use her objectives for the session in the
provided examples.
1- Elicit some information
Teacher: Rana?
Rana: Here, teacher.
Teacher: Good morning, Rana! What did you have
for dinner last night?
Rana: I had a plate of rice and chicken with
tomato sauce.
Teacher: Ibrahim?
Ibrahim: Here, teacher.
Teacher: What did you have for breakfast today?
Ibrahim: I had a sandwich of labneh and one
egg with a cup of tea
2- Write an incomplete sentence on the board, take attendance,
and have each student complete the sentence. In this example, the T writes,
“I’m happy today because…”:
Teacher: Khaled?
Khaled: Here, teacher. I’m happy today because
it’s not snowing!
Teacher: Yeah, me too! Nataly?
Nataly: I’m here, teacher. And I’m happy today
because it is my mother’s birthday.
And so on
3- Make a Student-to-student Question
Teacher: Lina?
Lina: I’m here. Emm… What did you have for dinner
last night?
Teacher: Ahmad?
Ahmad: Here, teacher. I had a burger and fries at
Five Guys.
Teacher: Oh, yeah. Good burgers. And your
question?
Ahmad: How did your parents meet?
Teacher: Nice question! Rita?
Rita: I’m here, teacher. They met in high school
at a dance.
4- Use Your Class List but Not in the Usual Way
- Go
in reverse alphabetical order
- Go
in age order (oldest to youngest, or vice versa)
- Be
entirely random, jumping around the list.
- Go
by height order, or eye color, etc but this depends if u know
your students very.
5- Vary the Language of Your Question
- Ahmad, are you her
- Lina, are you in the room?
- Mohammad, are you in the building?
- Nour, are you with us today?
- Fatima,
are you present?
5 comments:
New and interesting way, I will try to ask the teachers in my school to do that.
Interesting and new. If your target is to make your students practice speaking, you can benefit from the questioning. However, a problem rose in my head. Isn't this time consuming? While teaching, time is so precious; you need every minute and every second. Wasting time would be disappointing. On the other hand, I would like to observe such a session.
Amazing ways of taking Attendance. It encourages students to practice speaking and to use time efficiently. As Mirna Said, every allocated classroom minute is precious and must be used for worth learning purposes.
Interesting and innovative Suzan. The university must take advantages of those ideas instead of the formal, boring and usual way. This also increases the verbal interaction and social connectedness between students together and the students and teacher.
Interesting! It changes the boring routine teachers use everyday. however, the teacher doesn't want to waste his/her period taking attendance so he/she needs to work on incorporating it into the lesson he/she is going to give!
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