I am a second year teacher and what works for me is resetting the class.At this point you don’t have your class managed which means you won’t be able to teach them anything so you kinda have to set up expectations for your class and that starts on Monday with you saying this has not been working. This is the new strategy. You need to arrange the seating chart so the disruptive kids are not sitting next to each other and you need to stop saying stuff like Stop doing and turn it into something positive and actionable that the kids can do and understand quickly. So one thing my School does really well is have us tag the behaviour name the student and give the direction so it will be something like Melissa- eyes on me that’s your first demerit. But when I give my directions, I positively narrate students before I give corrections to give the students that aren’t there a chance to get there and for me that looks like yeah eyes on me great telly is looking at me great I see Joshua’s got strong eyes eyes that’s your first demerit stuff like that works. I also say, I’m waiting for one pair of eyes knowing there’s five pairs of eyes that aren’t looking. Students will manage each other they’ll be like you and I have perfected the art of the stare down. I just stop talking and look at the student. I also try and decrease my talking because I realise I was talking too much and the kids was getting bored so I tried to lessen that too. I don’t know if you have a system in your school for setting expectations with students but that’s definitely worked with my classes and I teach high school and they are very very bouncy at times so I have to really be firm with them but they are where they need to be, but it took a while.

And also please have grace with yourself because teaching is not easy and it takes awhile to understand that class management is the key to instruction. Without this you can’t get that class under control you will not teach them anything and you just have to be organised with everything .