To find solutions to this problem, I went to Michael Linsin, the creator of Smart Classroom Management and my go-to person for all classroom management needs. One of the things they don’t teach us in our education courses is just how freaking much students talk, and how hard it can be to quiet them down in order to get anything accomplished. If this sounds anything like you, you’re not alone. In a matter of seconds, the whole room had erupted, a huge hysterical bowl of popcorn, exploding all around me, and I couldn’t find my way out. Someone else decided to race them over to the sharpener. At this point, it had turned into a game. And with rascally smiles, they turned back to their journals to pretend to write some more. Another journal closed while a different hand went up. I squatted by her desk, and behind me, a conversation started between two others. The room needs to stay quiet so we can concentrate, I told them. The two who were stuck asked him what he wrote about. I signaled to them that I’d be over in a minute, but in the meantime, someone else was closing his journal, finished already. While we talked, two more raised their hands-two more pops-and said they were stuck, too. Then, like that first kernel of popcorn, one student said she didn’t know what to write, so I walked over to her desk to help her. I gave the class instructions for some kind of work let’s say journal writing. In my first few years of teaching, student talking was like popcorn. Listen to my interview with Michael Linsin ( transcript):
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