POWER TEACHING & CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT

The fact of establishing discipline in the classroom, creating a tolerant atmosphere with every student paying attention to the teacher's explanation is a hard task. How do we do that? 
There is one way, which is worth mentioning here; it is called 'Power teaching', and its main aim is to achieve an appropiate management in classroom, which means the attention of everybody without any disruptive behaviour.

 Some teachers believe that catching the majority of the class attention is enough. Nevertheless, the important thing about Power Teaching is that it is a good way to control every student, to make every student concerned about the lesson. Besides, this method aims to develop pair and group activities, following a communicative approach. The following video could be a good example of this type of methodology.

I remembered when I showed this video to my co-workers; it suddenly created an interesting debate. Is is a useful way to educate kids? or is it just too "mechanical"? Do they actually learn anything?

We should not forget that the main purpose of 'Power teaching' is that of catching everybody's attention. Once we have achieved that, it would become boring if we follow this method all the time. Consequently, this way of catching everybody's attention should be done during short periods of time. Teachers have to maintain students' discipline and motivation with innovation and interaction. It could be a good way to establish certain rules between students in order to achieve mutual respect. Nevertheless, when it comes to learning English or other subject, teachers should prepare activities which emphasize the learning of different skills (oral, writing, reading, speaking, etc).

Watch the following video and comment which are the important skills that every teacher should have from your point of view. Do you agree with Bill Gates?