Train Students to Listen for a Certain Sound Other Than Your Voice So, I’ve developed some very easy to implement strategies to get my students to listen to me without yelling. Plus, I was a clueless first-year teacher! The perfect recipe for a “yelling teacher”! That first year of teaching was already rough due to my own personal issues, but I also worked in an inner-city school, and most of my precious kiddos had just as many emotional issues as I did. I began my teaching career 10 years ago as a young widow and a brand new single mother, which I talk openly about here. As embarrassed as I am to admit it openly, I’ve yelled at my kids to get their attention. Unfortunately, this isn’t just an imaginary experiment but a real situation that has happened to me as a teacher. So she yells, “TAKE OUT YOUR VOCABULARY BOOKS NOW, AND I SAID DO IT QUIETLY!!!” (Invisible flames are shooting out of her head!) Now Teacher Tanya is frustrated because this scenario has happened four other times already TODAY. So Teacher Tanya says again, with a little more “oomph” in her voice, “Students, I said take out your vocabulary workbooks quietly.” Only two more students comply. The others turn and start talking to one another. Only three out of 26 students actually do it. Let’s begin with a little visualization exercise: Imagine Teacher Tanya saying very calmly to her students, “Ok, boys and girls, take out your vocabulary workbooks quietly.” NOTE: As Amazon Associates, we earn from qualifying purchases. Give her post a read, and we’d love to hear your thoughts in the comments! We are so excited to have Tanya from The Butterfly Teacher guest blogging for us today! Tanya has written an excellent post about an important topic: getting your students to listen without yelling.
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