75 Quick and Easy Solutions to Common Classroom Disruptions

This very well organised book is packed with practical solutions to the most common classroom problems – side talk, rude behaviour, calling out, students losing focus, and students refusing even to try. Every solution is classroom-tested, highly effective, and quick and easy to implement! Use this book to help make your classroom a happier, more productive learning environment – one in which your students thrive and everyone benefits!

Table of Contents

A Head Start

Advance Organizers

Apologize

Attention Signal

Audio Recording

Be Brief, Be Positive, Be Gone

Be the Model

Bean Bag

Behavior Contracts

Behavior Tracking

Check-In Statements

Checklists

Choice of Order

Chunk Tasks

Clear Directions

Closed Fist

Color Codes

Communicate with Home

Compliment and Congratulations

Concrete Reminders

Course Evaluation

Describe the Request

Eliminate Distractions

Energizers

Engaging Frames

Extend an Invitation

Eye Contact

5-Minute Focus Group

Focus on Process

Give a Gift

Give a Job

Graph the Results

Greet and Read

Headphones

Humor

I Messages

If-Then Statements

Increase Feedback

Learn to Ignore

Likely Before Unlikely

Looks Like, Sounds Like, Feels Like

Minimize Anxiety

Offer the Door

Personal Goals

Photographic Evidence

Planted Questions

Positive Self-Talk

Private Office

Proximity

Questions of Concern

Ramp Up Relevance

Rating Scales

Right to Pass

Secret Signal

Sentence Starters

SLANT

Smile

Solicit Good Intentions

Special Seating

Specific Time Frames

Sponge Activities

Stand and Stretch

Start Statements

Start Strong, End Strong

Stories

Talking Chips

Teacher-Approved Toys

Teaching Spot

Thanks in Advance

Three More Minutes, and…

Track the Lesson

Traffic Light

2 x 10 Method

Victory List

What You Could Have Said Was