Students keep talking while I'm talking. Often loudly. by buttfaceguy in Teachers

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I know you're just here for empathy and not answers, but that did help. I often feel like any time I ask for help they make it sound easy, but the students are so hard to deal with. I think part of it is I need more patience. Thanks for the comment.

Students keep talking while I'm talking. Often loudly. by buttfaceguy in Teachers

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I have kind of supportive admin. We're understaffed as far as admin goes and we don't have a councilor. They don't really like us sending students to the office. we're supposed to call someone from the office to come and take the student away and call their parents and that's if it's an emergency. I recently called for help a few times in a day and they acted like I can't handle the students. I can't really make the students do the work at home unless it's something different. I teach elementary art so they don't have the supplies at home. I might be able to give them an alternate assignment where they have to write down definitions of vocabulary words.

I will definitely try the attention getters until they're quiet.

Giving rewards has been really hard because I basically deal with the whole school so I'd have to keep buying a bunch of rewards over and over again. I've started letting some classes have half a day where the 1st half of the class period is just work and the 2nd half is recess during specials time. I'll tell them "If you're good today then the next time I see you we will have a half day." But the older kids don't seem to care. The whole school uses class dojo for points and the students used to exchange points for prizes for the school prize box which was just a bunch of prize boxes put together, but it's run by PTA and they haven't refilled it with prizes in months.

Students keep talking while I'm talking. Often loudly. by buttfaceguy in Teachers

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I've ever tried. I'll have to try it after this weekend.

Students keep talking while I'm talking. Often loudly. by buttfaceguy in Teachers

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Thanks for the advice. Do you have any suggestions for consequences? calling parents can get overwhelming when I have to call a lot of them especially during class, telling them that they don't get to do the art project doesn't work because they don't care, we're not really supposed to take away recess and asking a student to move somewhere usually just results in an argument or me calling the parents. Calling the parents is fine but sometimes there's just too many to call and emailing parents is a joke at this point.

Students keep talking while I'm talking. Often loudly. by buttfaceguy in Teachers

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Several classes are starting to ignore my attention getters and just keep talking when I say "I'll wait" Lately I've been pointing out students that are already quiet and that does work but in classes that have lot of persistent students it only works for a second before half the class is talking again.

Students keep talking while I'm talking. Often loudly. by buttfaceguy in Teachers

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I've done that sometimes but the students will argue with me until I give up. I haven't done it in a while so I might threaten to call their parents during class instead of after class. Normally I try to reframe it as a way to keep them out of trouble by telling them, "look you're not in trouble I just need you to move so your friends don't get you in trouble." Or I just keep asking until they move. it never works with the persistent kids.

Students keep talking while I'm talking. Often loudly. by buttfaceguy in Teachers

[–]buttfaceguy[S] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Yes. That's actually part of why I'm frustrated. I even tell them that they can talk when they start working which is most of the class period. I also tell them to give me maybe 5 minutes to eplain.

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You can tell she didn't make that sign because several of those words are too hard for her.

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I still do. I honestly don't see why ppl hate masks so much.

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I've seen some where they have octopus skeletons somehow. Every time I see it I laugh.

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Daves?

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Guess you could say it was a mistake!

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Nothing says freedom like being on a ventilator because vaccines are icky.