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