Classroom Management Strategies To Take Control Of Noisy Students

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[Music] hi and welcome to the take control of the noisy class videos now in this video I want to give you a little used and often forgotten but very effective way of taking control of really tough groups of students right at the start of lessons so this is for those groups that take ages to settle a very noisy and disruptive and they cause you a lot of stress and take a lot of time getting to settle down now before I do that I want to explain why I know this is so effective and how I know it can make a huge difference if you're struggling with this particular type of class you see when I first started teaching I was actually really useless a classroom management I had two basic strategies both equally ineffective for dealing with groups of students the first one was shouting so when they didn't do as I asked I used to shout at them and if they still didn't do as I asked I used to shout a bit louder until eventually I was shouting at the top of my voice now if you get to the point where you're yelling and screaming at the kids as I was and they're still ignoring you you've basically lost all credibility you've shown that you have no control whatsoever and in my particular case the kids were just laughing at me so that was a very ineffective strategy to use so my second strategy was my clutching at straws strategy and this was when everything had got on top of me and nothing was working I used to send the kids out and often I would only have half the kids left in the classroom because I've just got so frustrated with them the message I was given to the kids was I can't control you so I'm going to send you to somebody who can so again I had no credibility and they didn't see me as someone who was in control but also a lot of the other members of staff could see that I wasn't in control as well and that really hit me hard that added to my stress and my frustration now when I went from that situation through trial and error and through learning from other colleagues and learning from videos and books I went from that situation of not being able to control kids to being able to go into pretty much any classroom at all and be able to get almost instant respect and control and compliance from the kids and I was able to build really trusting positive bonds with some of the most challenging and challenged kids in the school really very quickly so I went from not being able to manage behavior to being able to manage behavior very well and my point is that anyone can do this and my aim with these videos is to give you simple proven strategies that will enable you to manage your classroom succeed with and get the most from some of the most challenging kids you are facing and reduce the stress and the amount of time that you're spending trying to deal with these kids so that you can enjoy your job more so with that said let's get on to our first video which is our little used and often forgotten strategy for taking control of tough groups right at the start of the class so first of all let's have a look at what's going on why do some groups take so much longer to settle down than others right at the start of lessons I'm going to use this rather fantastic drawing as an example so here we have our classroom when we have our group of students outside the room and let's imagine that this is quite a loud bunch this is quite a boisterous group of students so there's a bit of talking going on we'll put a speech bubble there but we'll do it with a pen that works classroom management 101 you must always have a marker pen that actually writes on the board so we'll put our little speech bubbles on just to show that it's a bit of talking going on there might be some pushing and shoving a bit of locking about we might even have the odd expletive coming out particularly that's an older group so I'll put the internationally recognised symbol for I am a rude child up there just so you get the picture that this is a loud group of students outside the classroom now at some point they're going to go in the room and they're going to push their way in and shove their way and they might we wanted to lug in behind but the point is they're going into that classroom out of control and when you get them in that classroom you've then got to spend your time settling them down and getting them ready to learn that's going to take you a long time because at this point these kids are still in party mode ok they may have come from a really fun active lesson they may have come from PA or they may have just been talking over break or they may have just been chatting through the corridors as the walking towards your classroom the point is that they are not ready to immediately settle down ready to learn at this point now from a psychological point of view if you let those kids in when they're out of control there's an imbalance of power they are entering your classroom on their terms and that's where a lot of the problems lie if they're coming into your classroom not fully under your control there's an imbalance of power and they're not going to listen to your instructions they'll have no regard for your rules so what's the solution well you probably worked out that if a lot of the source of the problems is letting the kids in the classroom when they're out of control it's at this point here at the door that we need to take control it's at this point that we need to position ourselves as an authoritative leader it's at this point here that we need to set the tone for the lesson so the kids are ready to listen to our instructions and ready to enter that classroom under our control you see a lot of teachers feel that classroom management is what happens inside the classroom and that's why this is a often forgotten little use strategy because they forget that classroom management actually takes place outside the classroom too it's outside the classroom that relationships are built it's outside the classroom where you set the tone for the rest of the lesson so that they enter that classroom under your control ready to follow instructions but the way we do this the way we take control at the door is absolutely crucial because if you're shouting at them and yelling at them and screaming at them or barking orders at them or reading the riot act in the corridor you're likely going to make your job of getting them settled to work even more difficult for yourself for two reasons teachers that shout and yell and scream at kids tend to get very little respect deep down students are not going to give their best work to a teacher they don't respect secondly as I've said earlier some students are just going to ignore you when you shout at them so you're going to get the situation where students are entering the classroom already having made up their mind that they're not going to listen to you there's no point in listening to you they're completely ignoring you and that's going to make the job of getting them to do as you ask very very difficult so a much better way is to settle them down gradually we've got to gradually move them into a state where they are much more likely to listen to what you're saying much more likely to do as you asked and therefore much more likely to settle to work when you tell them to do so very importantly they're going to be moving into this classroom on your terms following your acceptable rules for appropriate behavior now the way we do that is I need my red pen for this bit firstly by making non confrontational statements and two with a little bit of informal chit chat which I'll explain in a moment okay first of all non confrontational statements what do I mean by that well confrontational statements are those way you're talking about the things that are going wrong you're accusing students for doing things wrong you're blaming them for doing things wrong you're talking about the behaviors that you don't want to see so it's things like Paul why are you always late or Carly why you always making so much noise you two stop fighting you get lined up against the corridor we're talking about things that we don't want to see and it basically just reinforces that behavior and sets a very negative tone for the rest of the lesson non confrontational statements are reinforcing the things that we do want to see so it's reminding students about the things that they are doing right and encouraging others to do it right as well so Paul thanks very much for being on time I see you got a pen as well brilliant let's have you lined up quietly with everyone else brilliant what a great group we've got all this lot lined up perfectly we're just waiting for a few more to line up as well Carly I'm so pleased that you're settled right down you look as if you're ready to come in and start work thank you very much those sorts of statements are going to reinforce those behaviors that we do want to see now secondly we've got informal chitchat and there's no doubt that teachers who are comfortable chatting with their students outside the classroom in the bus queue or break time in the corridors tend to get much more respect from their students and tend to find students responding much more positively to them so you need to be able to chat with your students comfortably outside the classroom it's also a great to divide and conquer so rather than trying to address the whole group at once you just move in through small groups and chatting to small groups and individual students now if you not comfortable chatting with these students and you really need to be you need to get into kid culture start watching the films they watch start watching the TV programs they watch look at the fashions look at the the the jokes the humor that they're into and then you're down on their wavelength you can't expect them to come up to your wavelength you've got to get down to theirs if you want their respect so a teacher stands po-faced and can't chat with those students isn't going to get the same level of respect as someone who can get down to their level now you'll find that when you follow this process of non confrontational reminders about what you do want to see and a little bit of informal chitchat you very quickly see this group start to settle down into a more manageable frame of mind and you'll then find it much easier to get them to listen to your instructions when you do want to get them to start work now in the next video I'm going to show you a way of getting them from here into the classroom and sat down actually working straight away with minimal force and with minimal fighting and I'm also going to show you how we deal with those students who don't settle down straight away and don't follow your instructions so make sure you watch out for the next video and please if you've enjoyed this one please leave a comment in the box below okay I'll see you on the next page

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