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 Strategies For ...


Dealing with Low Level Disruption:

  • Focus on the children who are on task and praise them
  • Ensure the pace and structure of lessons are okay
  • Check their understanding – is the lesson accessible to all?
  • Check whether the lesson is engaging enough - are you using different styles and strategies?
  • Proximity to student - move in lose
  • Move the student to sit in a different seat
  • Use the 'deadly stare'
  • Give the child a task – ask them to hand something out
  • Praise someone who is displaying the behaviour you want
  • Carpet wriggler – sit on chair, so as not to distract others
  • Give the child some blue tac to fiddle with
  • Switch to a discussion task if several students are losing focus
  • Always have things for the children to do, i.e. times tables when lining up, thunk when on carpet, activity on tables
  • Use a clothes peg behaviour chart
  • Have everything organised (resources) before the lesson
  • Use a traffic lights system
  • Give a class reward that acknowledges children making good choices
  • Have high expectations constantly repeated – i.e. pens down, bodies turned towards adult, stopping at signal
  • Give responsibility to the children to stop each other – not going to lunch until …
  • Have carpet places and line spaces
  • Reward good behaviour – use gems rewards
  • Have a noise chart
  • Have a 'blurt chart' - give each child 3 'blurt tokens', every time a child calls out, they lose one token
  • Play teacher versus pupils – who behaves best?
  • Use Class Dojo
  • Give the children options – one of them good, one boring, dependent on their behaviour
  • Ignore low level disruption to start with, or use non verbal strategies
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  • Home
  • About
  • Books
    • Extracts >
      • The Seven E's of Reading for Pleasure
      • The Seven R's of Great Group Work
      • The Seven T's of Practical Differentiation
  • Training
    • Live Online Training
    • Behaviour Management
    • Differentiation
    • Thinking Skills
    • Voice Training
    • Writing Skills
  • Teachers
    • Lessons I Love
    • Free Downloads
    • Teachers TV
    • Practical Strategies >
      • Low Level Disruption
      • Students being argumentative with each other
      • Pacing lessons so that students maintain focus
      • Motivating boys to write
      • Tapping/wandering while you are talking
      • How do I know when to deal with/ignore behaviour?
      • Getting the class back to you
      • Arrogant/don't care/poor attitude
      • Arguing back
      • Calling out/shouting across the room
      • Controlling noise levels during group work
      • Engaging students who 'just don't see the point' in a subject
      • Giving feedback, efficient marking and showing progress
      • Refusal to start a task
      • Work life balance and time management
  • 100 Ideas
    • 100 Nursery Rhymes
    • 100 Tips for Artful Educators
    • 100 Books for Teens
    • 100 Tips for NQTs
    • 100 Tips for Writers
    • 100 Books for Little People
    • 100 Female Education Authors
    • 100 Tips on Behaviour
    • 100 Funny Poems and Poets
    • 100 Books for KS2
    • 100 Tips for Developing Young Writers
    • 100 International Classic Books and Authors
  • Blog
  • Conferences
    • Bury Secondary Headteachers
    • Cambridgeshire NQTs
    • Children with Special Needs Contact Day
    • Teach First
    • Firm Foundations
    • Football Association
    • Association of British Schools of Chile
    • NUT Reading for Pleasure
    • Sweden