Consider a student who is disruptively talking to a neighbor while you are teaching. Develop and list a full continuum of responses for dealing with the unproductive learning behavior.
- My first response to this student would be to politely ask, or remind him/her to stop talking and pay attention the lecture.
- I would then separate him/her from the student he/she is talking to.
- If that does not solve the problem, and the behavior continues, I would ask him/her again to stop talking, then I would speak to him/her alone at an appropriate time to further address the issue, and provide him/her with strategies he/she can use to prevent him/herself from talking to other students while I am teaching.
- If the problem continued after our one-on-one discussion, I would try an alternative approach wherein I call on him/her to answer questions during the lecture, hoping that this would help to engage him/her in the lesson, and possibly satisfy his/her need to talk during class.
- If time allows, and he/she mostly only talks during longer lectures, I could give a one or two minute break during the lesson to allow the class to talk to their neighbors. Hopefully this will eliminate his/her desire to talk to friends while I am teaching.
- If none of these strategies do the trick, I will confer with parents to see if they have any ideas on how to better address the issue.
- If none of these strategies do the trick, I will confer with parents to see if they have any ideas on how to better address the issue.
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