Teaching toddlers:
This show goes over some basic problems that come up in teaching classes with 1-3 year olds: short attention spans, running around the room, eating your materials, high expectations of the parents and more. Each problem is addressed and a few ideas for dealing with each are discussed.
More advice and focus is given to the actual planning and running of the classes:
* language production and what to expect
* handling zero production
* eliciting language from this group
* activities: what do they like
* activities: what qualities do they like
* vocabulary: how to introduce it
* working with music and actions
* play and explore vs. teaching at them
* how to motivate them
Quite a bit in this show and we hope some of it is helpful if it’s not all applicable.
ESL Teacher Talk, http://www.eslteachertalk.com/2009/11/teaching-toddlers-2-3-year-olds/