CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT. YOUNGER LEARNERS

 

 There are special tricks a teacher can introduce at the lesson, that may help for some time. BUT it's not the remedy and sooner or later they won't work too. In this case it would be a good idea to ask or help a more experienced colleague-teacher at your school.
Anyway, these tricks may help you for the start and can make your lessons more attractive for your younger pupils.

Here we go....

1. Bouncyballs. 
It's a program in the internet that you can use to controll the limit of noise at the lesson. You will need a computer with internet connection and a microphone. The balls that you see in the picture start bouncing when the noise is increasing. So, the louder are the students, the quicker the balls are bouncing. You can change the theme from plastic ball that you can see in the picture to smilies, bubbles or eyeballs. It can work as a reminder for the pupils that it becomes noisy and they have to calm down.


2. Noisometer.

There are electronic versions of it, which cost quite a lot, but you can always use a paper version. It works too. I use the one that you can see in the photo. Thee arrows are moved manually. It's also a kind of reminder for pupils to be quiet. You can give them point for being quiet during some task and promise a surprise or a prize at the end of the lesson if they are quiet. I believe you have to focus their attention on being quiet, not obedient or working well, but quiet. In this way they'll understand what you want from them. Let me know if you need such a noisometer. I can share it with you.


3. Quiet critters.
This are creatures that live in a soundproof jar and come out of it when the children are quiet. They have no mouths. They are scared of noise. That's their story. You introduce the idea at the beginning of the lesson and during the whole lesson you together with your students take care of them. They come to sit on children's desks if the work quietly.
All you have to do is to make them.

We are quiet critters.
We only come around
When you work quietly.
We get scared when we hear a sound.

We like to sit on your desk
And watch you from afar.
But if you start to make some noise
We run back to our soundproof jar.


4. Quiet Spray.

Next classroom management idea is a QUIET SPRAY. I guess the idea is quite clear. Take a used spray bottle, wash it precisely. Then peel the label off and still a new printed and laminated label. The bottle has to be empty. Spray the class when you want them to be quiet. You don't have to use water for that unless it's very hot and your students want to.





5. Cowboy hats or sheriff stars.

I give sheriff hats or printed out sheriff start to the most hard-working, obedient student in each row, who works hard or finishes his task first or is worth praising for something. I also use deputy sheriff start, so that more pupils could have a chance to be a sheriff. Before starting the game with sheriffs, we alsways discuss the qualities a sheriff has to possess and children try to correspond to them during the lesson.


6. Rulers on the board.

I sometimes draw 3 rulers on the board. One for each row. There are 7 sentimetres on them, by the number of activities at the lesson. If there is too much noise or talk not on the point I wipe the centimetres out. And they immediately calm down. We make a kind of contest between the rows. And the winning row gets the prize. It can be a sticker, a 'plus' for the work at the lesson or anything else that you can think of.
The same principle is to write the word English on board and wipe the letters out if it becomes too noisy. Surely there has to be for the the reason 'why' - why not be noisy.


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