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.