How do i cantroll a loud talking class?

Question

I teach Middle School Math, and my 5th hour class will not SHUT UP!!! i give the students talking a detention, trip to the pincipal, and sometimes in school suspention!!!! and when ever they come back to class, they do not learn their lesson!!! what should i do???

Answer 1

Reward the good ones. Call parents of bad ones and keep sending to the principal as much as it takes. There are some that I send out ALL THE TIME! I do not allow one bad apple to spoil the bunch. Eventually the principal will make more of an effort to fix the problem.

Answer 2

I have learned that a "soft answer" is truly the best way.   I have also developed a "look" that the students know it is time to be quiet.   Have you tried giving incentives to the ones who are being quiet?   The ones who are not will come along with those who are being disruptive.  Sounds like they know how to get to you and you need to be a strong force that cannot be rattled.

Answer 3

You could try a coach's whistle.  When they are talking out of control, go stand next to the leaders, quietly say hold your ears, and let out a painful whistle.

Do not let the principal sit in your class; the students will realize that you don't have control.

You are going to have to be mean.  They don't respect you, so they will have to fear you.  You have to let no talking whatsoever for a few days.  If they whisper, you sharply say, "No talking!"

Being nice works for experienced, well-established teachers.  One day you will be able to be nice.

Answer 4

What works for one class does not always work with another. Here are some ideas to try:

1) Make the students who are talking sign a form that states that they acknowledge that they are breaking your rules. I've done this before and it helps in some cases. If I notice that there are some students who are the main instigators, I make out a slip for them ahead of time. Make sure to include the student's name, date, and the rule they broke on the slip, then you sign it and they sign it. You can keep this in a file for when you talk to their parents or principal.

2) Have a one on one conference with the loudest students in the classroom, take them out in the hall to separate them from their audience. They usually will listen to you more this way.

3) Call home to their parents. I hate to call parents about their students' bad behavior, but whenever I have, the parents have been very supportive of me. In many cases, these students will be much more well-behaved the next day.

4) New seating chart! Whenever my classes get to "comfortable" I switch up their seats to get them away from their friends.

Answer 5

Talk softly.

They will want to hear you and shut up.

Gail

Answer 6

I told one of my classes last year that they had three warnings before they got a quiz over the material they were learning in class that day.  Every time someone talked, i would write a name on the board.  When it got to three, they got a quiz.  It worked well, because by seeing whose names were on the board, everyone knew whose fault it was that they had to have a quiz.

Answer 7

Raise your voice. In my old school even the nicest teachers got fed up and yelled at us. Thats when I was like woah! Shes serious. Also you could have the principal come sit in on a couple of your classes.

Answer 8

First of all, stay calm.  The more upset you get, the more they "win."  Lower your voice.  The quieter you talk, the more they have to try to listen.  Rearrange their seating so that friends don't sit next to each other.  (Of course, sometimes they talk across the room, and of course there are "refrigerator box" students.  They're the ones who would still talk if their desk was inside of a refrigerator box.)

With middle schoolers, positive reinforcement is a great tool.  Why not try something like Friday Fifteen?  Each week, the kids can earn 15 minutes of choice time at the end of class.  The Friday 15 can be game time (I put out different games to play, let them draw, read, talk, do homework, etc.)

Everytime a student does something positive, have the student add a couple of minutes to the board.  Make sure you praise the student loudly.  "Susie, thank you so much for listening and paying attention.  Go on up and add two minutes to your Friday 15 for the class."  "Wow, Billy, you're doing a great job working on your worksheet in class.  Add three minutes to your Friday 15."  I worked with a teacher who automatically started them off with 5 minutes every Monday "Just for thanking them for coming in."  I automatically gave them 2 minutes every day for coming in and getting started quietly on bell work right away.  She also would award time for completing tasks quickly.  She would give them 3 or 4 minutes to get their papers all turned in (safely), they're books put away, etc.  She started by giving them too much time and then awarding the time left after they were quiet and ready to continue to their Friday 15.  Then she started shortening the time on tasks ("Let's see if you can beat your last time.")

BTW, the other teacher also had a class her first year who were proud of being awarded the fewest minutes.  They would say "Yeah, we're in the lead, ha ha."  She started sneaking extra time onto their time until they were actually ahead.  Then they started to get proud of themselves and turned around in their behavior.

Answer 9

I had a similar problem with one of my classes.  When they would start to talk louder than I saw fit, I would just stop in the middle of my sentence and wait for them to shut up.  Usually there are only a few in the class that are the ringleaders and the others talk because the main ones are getting away with it.  Peer pressure is a huge thing in middle school and I generally wait for them to yell at each other to shut up.  That usually worked.  They also knew that if they shut up and let me say what I wanted to then they would have time to work on homework and probably get it done and if they talked then we would run out of time and would have to take it home and do it, so that usually worked as an incentive as well.  They do not respect you and that is the biggest problem, not their talking.  I only yelled at my talking class once last year and that really got their attention.  I like the quiz idea that some ahead of me talked about.  I will probably use that next year!

Answer 10

Dude you can't. it's like telling a dog to walk on 2 legs for the rest of there lives . they can't do it. there used to walking on all 4's so kids are used to talking to there friends all the time. your waisting your time.

Answer 11

first of all, when my son was still in public school, he had this same problem with his teacher & the whole class, I told the teacher you need to not only lay down the law, but show them YOUR the adult, the boss, by just being nice, is only allowign them to keep doing it over & over again. Let them know that its YOUR classroom first! Then its theres!! Your the one to make the rules!!

Let them know the conciquineces (sorry its mispelled) too.

But for the most part the sooner you take control of your room, the easier it will be for you to teach them.

I now homeschool my son, but I remeber mu sons 3rd grade teacher asking "me" what she should do?? I couldnt beleive a teacher was asking me how to control HER room!   I mean she was the teacher, & I was then the parent.  So I personally told her in a nice voice, this is what we as parents see when we walk in your room. And what should be done.

Once we talked soon after that, I noticed 1 h**l of diffrence in her room. Even the kids were taking notice too.

Hope I helped. Good luck in what you do.

Also sometimes sending themto the prinicples office dosnt work, example... my son got busted for taking something from a teacher, I was called by the teacher, but the prinicple awarded him with a new pincle, & stickers! I was so ******!

Sorry, btu what kind of punishment is that?? I made my son give back the item he took that day infront of the class, & made him apologize to her too. He never did anythign like that again either! He knew I meant business!

I mean what kind of punishment was that to award a student for takign what isnt his? I wouldve hated to see what he did for acutral punishment!