“Sometimes I feel like I’m talking to myself” if you find yourself saying this over and over again, it’s time to consider some of these tips by Michael Linsin the author of a series of classroom management books.
- Talk less: try to cut the amount of your talking by at least a third. When students feel that you micromanage every move, they lose interest.
- Lower your voice: loud voices are too easy to hear which encourages your students to move and rustle while you are talking. But if you lower your voice, you force them to lean in and listen more intently.
- Stop repeating: When you repeat the same directions over and over, you train your students not to listen to you the first time. When you say it once, you teach them to take an active part in their education and motivate them to pay attention.
- Don’t give up: it takes some time to unlearn bad habits and your students might resist the change to get to the old ways. The more it takes, the more you know how far learned helplessness has taken root in your classroom. But once they feel your persistence, they’ll begin to change.
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