Classroom management in multilingual classes

Aung Min Pai presented strategies for managing multilingual classrooms. He identified challenges like communication barriers and unequal participation, alongside opportunities for cultural exposure and peer learning. Key strategies include co-creating inclusive classroom rules, explicitly respecting all languages (while encouraging English as the working language), using visual aids and gestures, allowing code-switching, and differentiating tasks. Collaboration through mixed-language projects and peer tutoring is crucial. The session also emphasized continuous teacher reflection and adapting methods, considering cultural contexts, to foster an empathetic and engaging learning environment for all students.