Simple Tips - Classroom Management

HOW TO CONTROL A CLASSROOM
You may feel it easier to shout at the class when they are out of control, but this method is not at all effective and is a short-term approach to get their attention.

Try these tips next time before you raise your voice -

• Keep some signals with you. You can have a silence board, or clap your hand three times, put your hands up to show that you want them to be quiet.
• Play some games to distract them from being noisy. You can tell them” if you finish quietly we can play a game” ; but make sure that you play the game once they finish.
• You can always take them out and play an active game if you find them very restless in the class.
• It is sometimes a good thing to ask them " who are the best children in this school?”. This will calm them down. Once they have calmed down you can say “I know, you are the best”
• Praise the children often if they have been good. Say that you are proud of them and that they are learning a lot.

It is all in the way we present ourselves to the child; we raise our voice, children quieten down...again they shout, we raise our voice, children quieten down....slowly this becomes a pattern and children think that they ought to quieten down only when we raise our voice. BREAK this pattern, DO NOT RAISE YOUR VOICE...instead, employ ways suggested here consistently.