Strategies for ...

 
Tapping/wandering while you are talking:

• Take the object away (replace with blue tac)
• Ask a direct question
• Stop and wait
• Jazz hands to show that they have no stuff in their hands
• Look, move closer
• Stop and wait
• Ask for “Eyes on me”
• Give them something to fidget with
• Move to stand beside them
• “If you can’t stop fidgeting, sit on your hands”
• Ignore – address later
• Clapping
• “30 seconds” to do it and get it out of their systems
• Take a dojo off them (Class Dojo)
• Hand in the air until ready to write - Ready, steady, go!
• Keep talking, walk up to the child and look or touch table
• Expectation – we don’t hold pen/pencil when listening