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9-11…they still care what you think. Sending them out of the room because they were talking is not a punishment and you’re making more work for yourself to catch him up on what he missed.
The fact that they talk during instruction is direct evidence that they did this last school year. This needs to change. To start, post three rules in your classroom and discuss them with the students. Make them general so many unwanted behaviors under each. For example, “Treat each other with respect.” Many behaviors could fall under that category. Next, discuss what the consequences of each will be.
Next, tell the students that you will be playing a fun, dumb review game at the end of class. This can be done daily with only 5 minutes. Write the name of any students that talk on paper or whiteboard. When you are going to play the game, kick them out to sit in the pod. They will be bummed and start observing the rules. Believe me, I taught 6th grade and it works every time, especially if the winner gets a little prize. They were allowed to pick one thing out of my candy jar or from a box of goofy stuff from Dollar General.
If they talk while you are, tell them you’ll wait. Go sit down in your chair. Explain what you don’t get done in class will be done for homework. Use the above paragraph after this. It works every time. You must follow through with the rules.
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9-11. Fourth grade
Are they talking while you are teaching or just while you are having them wait in the pod? If they are talking while you are teaching, then it’s a problem. If they are talking during transition times, let them talk if it is not disrupting others. Kids need time for social connection, too. Maybe put some volume control rules or visuals in place if it is getting too loud. But talking between classes during bathroom breaks should be ok. Kids are not robots. We complain that they don’t know how to socialize because they are always on their phones or tablets, then get annoyed when they socialize? That does not make sense to me.
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I agree that during transition times, it is a good time to have conversation. I allow my students to talk quietly once they are lined up to enter the room, but if it gets loud-conversation is over!
I'm a TA, but the teacher does a marble jar reward system for her class and brings the jar and some marbles with her when we're doing extended time in the hall like that. While waiting, she asks questions with 4 possible answers and has kids hold up a certain number of fingers for their answer. If at least half of the class gets her question right, she puts a marble in the jar. This keeps kids engaged, as they want to earn the marble jar reward (right now it's a movie and popcorn, and filling the marble jar takes about 150 of these small marbles she has), and if anyone is messing around and not paying attention the other kids will shush them to get them to play along with the game.
Gamifying waiting times like that might help with your problem.