strategies for ...
Students talking over each other/being argumentative:
- Implement the school policy
- Stand by or inbetween them
- Pause and wait
- Contact parents
- Use a seating plan
- Saying, after play, I only want to hear good things from you - if they still want to tell you something, they have to do it during independent work
- Early intervention
- Allow one 'problem student' to play inside, to keep them apart
- Time out, outside, to calm down
- Visible rewards for good behaviour, good listening - timely praise