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I'm Jayani Samaraweera, studying as a fourth-year TESL undergraduate at the University of Kalaniya. I have done a teaching demonstration under the course unit TESL 41545 – Principles and Practices of Classroom Management. There, I taught how to make a paper ship for the intermediate-level grade 7 students. Giving instructions and grading are the two classroom management strategies I mainly applied in this demonstration. I hope this demonstration helped me to seek myself as an ESL teacher.

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