A lesson doesn’t necessarily have to be totally silent in order to be a success – unless you’re Marcel Marceau delivering his famous ‘a life in mime’ lecture – but if noise levels rise to the point where they are affecting others, it’s time to take action. Here are some things to consider.
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Classroom management can be especially hard when you’re a supply or substitute teacher. You don’t know the class, so don’t know the malleable students from the challenging ones. What’s more, these students don’t knowyouand some of them are going to test your boundaries. They’re going to find it fun to see how much they can get away with.
So how do you...
This is a very simple classroom management strategy which I use at seminars and workshops to demonstrate the power of giving students responsibility for their own behaviour. Not only can this technique get a group of students quiet in as little as 10 seconds, it also strengthens staff/student relationships, injects a little humour into the session and gives challenging students the attention...
A student who has no interest in lessons (i.e. anything you say and do) can have a terrible impact on the rest of the class. What you must remember however is that this student probably wants to succeed – most do, at heart – but has virtually given up due to a succession of failures, discouragement and low self-image. It may take time to reach this student and help them see life...
A few years ago I wrote a short blog post (on my old website) covering novel ways to get attention from a noisy group of students - you know the kids that just won't stop talking no matter what you do.
Why? Well simply because this would seem to be one of the most frustrating problems teachers face. I get emails about it every day.
Anyway, that post quickly became the most popular on my entire...
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Here are nine quick ways to de-escalate arguments and serious incidents.
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Defiant behaviour is often a cry for help or an attempt to cover a fear of failure. Nobody wants to look stupid in front of others (except those in the audition stages of the X-Factor) and arguing against authority can be an effective distraction and a way of...
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