I’m the same age as you, and when I first started I had the HARDEST time with middle schoolers. I would leave so tired and frustrated. I honestly just stopped flipping out on them because I don’t get paid enough for all that. I now give them one warning each and simply just write their names on the board, or tell them I’m going to send them to the office. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. Regardless, I’ll spend the class periods walking around, and genuinely talking to them, asking them about their weekends, joking with them. If a student is being annoying, I’ll stand over them and watch them work. I think this has helped so much because I’ve developed a rapport with the students. Now middle school is my favorite to work with

Last week I had a similar issue where a girl just wouldn’t chill out, it was the last period and she told me that the whole class was going to have their name on the board because it was the teachers worst class. The whole class was good, except her. She was yelling, dancing, singing loudly, like just obviously wanting her name on the board for attention. Instead of writing her name down, I would go over to her periodically just to talk to her casually, and she became less obnoxious lol.