hardway: seek the general (the provocator) who is in class control and crush him off.
Pasiveway: seek the general (the provocator) who is in class control and bribe him.Any suggestions on how to get my classes attention when they are out of control?
Something I try when they are out of control is i say in a low voice directions. For example, I will say
';If you can hear me, wiggle your fingers';
';If you can hear me, snap your fingers';
';If you can hear me, put your hands up high';...etc
The reason I do this is first of all, you don't have to scream. Second of all you see who is actually paying attention to what you are saying. You will be surprised that some students in the back of the room are actually doing what you are saying because they pay attention. Another reason why this works is because those that are not listening will see students around them all of a sudden do these movements and they don't know why so they begin to pay attention to what you are saying. Some think its just like a game but you are doing it to get their attention without having to yell over them. After about 4 directions you should have most of the class following. If not, you can always single out the ones that aren't, by then the class should be quiet enough. After you have everyone doing it, let them know that they were not doing as they were supposed to. Depending on how out of control, after everyone is quiet I tell them to put their heads down ( for like half a minute) then continue with the lesson/activity.
If it continues I just tell them they will have to lose out on recess for every time I have to stop again.
I don't know exactly what age group you're working with, but there is a teacher i used to work with who had a great technique that worked well for students from K to 5th grade. She would do a sort of rhythmic clapping that she instructed the students early on to repeat. Everytime the students would get out of control she would just start to clap loudly. The pattern didn't really matter. The children would immediately quiet down and repeat the pattern. She would always do this three times with different patterns, and the 4th time she would always end with 3 quick claps which meant it was over. I was amazed by how well this worked and put the students' attention in your hands. Give it a try.
Detention...
Just stop and wait. If it continues, you should start to call parents. Don't warn them, just do it. The parents should be told that their child is disrupting the class. You can also assign detention.
Sing Happy Birthday! It might surprise you.
you should shout or also you should just wait and start a stop watch and then you add on time at the end of the lesson that should work!
turn off lights.
start counting to ten.
do a clap that they have to repeat back and keep doing it until you have their attention.
Sit at your desk and wait until you have their attention. Tell them that that amount of time will now be taken from lunch, recess, free time, any reward that they might want. Or they have to be silent that amount of time in lunch in front of their friends.
Its a little late in the school year to be worrying about this.
say two of the scariest words that a teacher can ever utter.......POP QUIZ. and then inform then that whenever they get loud and out of control, you reserve the right to invoke the dreaded pop quiz on them.
buy a whistle
Clapping! Might sound a bit daft. Explain that when you clap you want them to drop everything and copy the clap. It could be a two or three beat clap depending on how noisy they are. Works great for a month or two more so with middle classes.
Ooo... I remember when I was in back in school my teacher would yell twice and then get really really quiet. Than she would just start writing names on the board. She wouldn't tell any of us what she was doing... Soon enough the whole class was quiet trying to figure out why their names were going up on the board. All you have to do is come up with a punishment for those with their names on the board.
Look at them silently until they shut up and then give them lots of HW. Keep the brats busy.
tell them to shut there ******* mouth :-0
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