I'm so glad, Ferro2155. Hope it's useful for you! (Sorry it's taken me so long to respond, but it's finally summer and I finally have time to catch up with all of these TH-cam comments.)
Great tips! I'm loving this series. I am a second year teacher, going from being thrown in to a special ed/resource environment (with absolutely no sped experience) at my first school, to relocating and now will be teaching regular ed and some team taught. I like your tip about waiting until it is pindrop silent to begin teaching, but how do you get to that point? Do you stand and wait until all talking stops? Or do you have some technique for quieting them down? With my resource kids, I could've stood there glaring at them all period and no one would have stopped! Thank you so much for taking the time to put together this series and also for your entire blog; this is so helpful!
My pleasure, Rachel. So glad you found me! Usually, I can stand at the front of the room and just wait five seconds or so for the quiet. There's something intimidating about my teacher face, I've been told. :) If the noise continues, I'll say something like, "A-n-d I'm waiting for Nick." Pick a good-natured, but noisy kid to mention by name and the other talkers will follow his lead and shut up so you can get started. If the noise is more widespread, I'll start talking VERY softly to the kids in the front row who are ready to start class. Remember, stay soft, "Okay, so now I'm going to tell you the first answer to tomorrow's pop quiz. If you can hear my voice, you'll get that question right." By the time I get through the question, classmates have shushed everyone so they can hear what I'm about to say. (And then I never actually use that question or even necessarily give a pop quiz. Ha!) Basically, I just get very soft and quiet. There's 34 of them and only one of me. No way I can out-talk/out-shout them, so I never ever try. Hope this works for you, too. And congratulations on your new assignment! It's going to be a different world this year, for sure.
I am a new teacher and have trouble establishing order in the classroom. Thank you for posting these videos about how to keep control in a high school classroom. I always have trouble with high school students, especially the ones I'm dealing with now; i.e. ninth grade. I also teach sixth grade English and have more success with those students.
how do you get the class to become pin quiet so you can give instruction? what if they dont quiet down? what do you do then? do you start writing instructions the board? i mean, you cant wait forever for the class to become pin drop quiet.
Oh, I hear you, Julianna! This is such a common problem that I made a whole other video about what I do when kids just won't stop talking. Here you go: th-cam.com/video/476NrGdrdmk/w-d-xo.html :)
Laura, I agree with you 100%! I have 3 simple rules: 1. BODY: keep it to yourself. 2. MOUTH: You don’t have to agree with each other or even like each other but you MUST respect each other. 3. BODY, MIND, AND SPIRIT: Don’t be a knucklehead. Those three rules cover every possible scenario. For seniors next year, I will have only one rule, #3. I don’t need a written rule that says Don’t start sharpening a pencil while someone is talking, because that violates rules 2 and 3. As you said, Laura, if you try to think of every single thing a student could possibly do that they shouldn’t, you’ll have 500 rules and still miss about 1,000 you didn’t think of. Maybe for primary grades you need something more specific; I don’t know because I don’t know squat about teaching primary. But for high school, especially upper classes, if they don’t know what’s unacceptable by now, 500 extremely specific rules isn’t going to help them!
Thanks, Debbie, for watching and commenting. I'm with you - our teens know what they're supposed to be doing. Loving your simple approach to classroom civility. Success!
Hi Laura. I found your video from Tonya Skinner, another fab Tech teacher who shares her knowledge with the world. What do you use to capture your videos and what program do you use to edit with?
How awesome, Willa! Glad you found me. I'm definitely jealous of Tonya's tech classes. Would LOVE to lead some of those. For this video, I just recorded with my iPhone and edited with iMovie. I also sometimes use screencasting via QuickTime, a program that came installed on my laptop. Happy creating! :)
First of all you seem to be awesome and if i was in your class, i would definitely fall in love with you.., seriously! Secondly I do not agree with vague rules however i agree with simple rules that get to the heart of the matter abd turned into positive affirmations. Kindly be quiet when the teacher is talking . Raise you hands if you want to ask a question. Be respectful to the school property Be respectful to each other.
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Love this series I’m a second year teacher trying to figure out how to stay consistent with classroom rules
Great, thank you!❤
Yes, Thanks for the handouts :)
You are awsom and I am getting lots of help form you videos.
Thank you! I am switching from 2nd to 7th English and your videos are helping me.🙏🏼😃❤️
My goodness! That's quite a change, Joy. Let me know if specific questions arise. 😀
Interesting. I will love to have a copy of thise rules details. Thanks madam
Here you go! laurarandazzo.com/my-four-classroom-rules-syllabus/
You are AWESOME!!!!
I love the idea of a handout!
I'm so glad, Ferro2155. Hope it's useful for you! (Sorry it's taken me so long to respond, but it's finally summer and I finally have time to catch up with all of these TH-cam comments.)
Great tips! I'm loving this series. I am a second year teacher, going from being thrown in to a special ed/resource environment (with absolutely no sped experience) at my first school, to relocating and now will be teaching regular ed and some team taught. I like your tip about waiting until it is pindrop silent to begin teaching, but how do you get to that point? Do you stand and wait until all talking stops? Or do you have some technique for quieting them down? With my resource kids, I could've stood there glaring at them all period and no one would have stopped! Thank you so much for taking the time to put together this series and also for your entire blog; this is so helpful!
My pleasure, Rachel. So glad you found me! Usually, I can stand at the front of the room and just wait five seconds or so for the quiet. There's something intimidating about my teacher face, I've been told. :) If the noise continues, I'll say something like, "A-n-d I'm waiting for Nick." Pick a good-natured, but noisy kid to mention by name and the other talkers will follow his lead and shut up so you can get started. If the noise is more widespread, I'll start talking VERY softly to the kids in the front row who are ready to start class. Remember, stay soft, "Okay, so now I'm going to tell you the first answer to tomorrow's pop quiz. If you can hear my voice, you'll get that question right." By the time I get through the question, classmates have shushed everyone so they can hear what I'm about to say. (And then I never actually use that question or even necessarily give a pop quiz. Ha!)
Basically, I just get very soft and quiet. There's 34 of them and only one of me. No way I can out-talk/out-shout them, so I never ever try.
Hope this works for you, too. And congratulations on your new assignment! It's going to be a different world this year, for sure.
I am a new teacher and have trouble establishing order in the classroom. Thank you for posting these videos about how to keep control in a high school classroom. I always have trouble with high school students, especially the ones I'm dealing with now; i.e. ninth grade. I also teach sixth grade English and have more success with those students.
Love it ❤. Thanks 🙏🏻.
Glad you like it!
how do you get the class to become pin quiet so you can give instruction? what if they dont quiet down? what do you do then? do you start writing instructions the board? i mean, you cant wait forever for the class to become pin drop quiet.
Oh, I hear you, Julianna! This is such a common problem that I made a whole other video about what I do when kids just won't stop talking. Here you go: th-cam.com/video/476NrGdrdmk/w-d-xo.html :)
I'm learning so much from you :)
Laura, I agree with you 100%! I have 3 simple rules: 1. BODY: keep it to yourself. 2. MOUTH: You don’t have to agree with each other or even like each other but you MUST respect each other. 3. BODY, MIND, AND SPIRIT: Don’t be a knucklehead. Those three rules cover every possible scenario. For seniors next year, I will have only one rule, #3. I don’t need a written rule that says Don’t start sharpening a pencil while someone is talking, because that violates rules 2 and 3. As you said, Laura, if you try to think of every single thing a student could possibly do that they shouldn’t, you’ll have 500 rules and still miss about 1,000 you didn’t think of. Maybe for primary grades you need something more specific; I don’t know because I don’t know squat about teaching primary. But for high school, especially upper classes, if they don’t know what’s unacceptable by now, 500 extremely specific rules isn’t going to help them!
Thanks, Debbie, for watching and commenting. I'm with you - our teens know what they're supposed to be doing. Loving your simple approach to classroom civility. Success!
Hi Laura. I found your video from Tonya Skinner, another fab Tech teacher who shares her knowledge with the world. What do you use to capture your videos and what program do you use to edit with?
How awesome, Willa! Glad you found me. I'm definitely jealous of Tonya's tech classes. Would LOVE to lead some of those. For this video, I just recorded with my iPhone and edited with iMovie. I also sometimes use screencasting via QuickTime, a program that came installed on my laptop. Happy creating! :)
thanks for the great tip~! really love to have the course outline handout but the link doesn't work now?
Hi Belinda! Sorry to hear you're facing a cranky link. Here, try this: lrandazzo.files.wordpress.com/2016/02/courseoutlineforblog.pdf :)
thanks for the iorny video it helped a lot
First of all you seem to be awesome and if i was in your class, i would definitely fall in love with you.., seriously! Secondly I do not agree with vague rules however i agree with simple rules that get to the heart of the matter abd turned into positive affirmations.
Kindly be quiet when the teacher is talking .
Raise you hands if you want to ask a question.
Be respectful to the school property
Be respectful to each other.
Thanks, Sam. Yes, simplicity is almost always best. 😀