Strategies for ...

Calling out/shouting across the room:

• Strike/warning as per school policy
• Reminder
• Stare
• Hand up – wait – move on
• Pot of fairness (one voice)
• Tell them you have a hearing problem – you can only hear children who have their hands up
• Calling out tokens – 3 in lesson
• Blurt Chart – each child has 3 strikes - each time they shout out or speak when they aren’t supposed to they lose 1 point
• Praise those with their hands up
• “That would have been a really good answer, it’s a shame your hand wasn’t up"
• Ask them to write their comment/question on a whiteboard to show teacher
• Gems/stickers for hands up
• Don't use hands up to get answers
• Whiteboards for answers
• Use hands on nose as an alternative to hands up
• Seating plans
• Have a conversation and short of 'feed them' the answer, then go to the front and ask the question
• Make the students hold you accountable for not choosing someone who calls out
• Visual dial for the classroom: choice between hands up/shout out/I'm choosing
• Thank people who show the behaviour you expect
• Think, pair, share
• Tactical ignoring
• Lollipop sticks for random questioning
• Raffle tickets for hands up, for a prize