Re: Managing 52 3rd & 4th graders??
Posted by stxartteacher on 3/27/08
All good ideas from previous posters, but until you can get this fixed here is an idea. When I was student-teaching, I worked with the BEST art teacher in South Texas. Yea Carlos Martinez!!!! I learned more from him than 4 years in college. We ran over 350 1st-5th students a day through our room, sometimes we would have teachers who couldn't get a sub and so they would place the kids in with us - that ment 60 - 75 kids in the room. Luckily it was a double size room. But, here's the thing...you have to be able to manage them. Carlos and I would line them up outside the room and tell them, "Okay, this is a big class and if you can't behave and listen, than we won't be able to have any fun. So let's line up and be absolutely quiet before we go in. Here are the rules (insert your own here). If we go in and you don't follow them, then we will have to come out here again." We would send in one table at a time (have assigned seats). If we get in and cant teach, then we go right back out and start over again. Be firm, make sure they understand the rules and consequences every time they come in. Create a job chart for each table and time everything to the second so that they understand, the longer it takes them to line up, listen and go into class - the less time they will have to make art. I teach high school now and have used the same method - there is not a freshman alive who will tolorate having to line up more than once, they usually will get the trouble makers in line and quiet for me!
Posts on this thread, including this one
- Managing 52 3rd & 4th graders??, 3/26/08, by Annie.
- Re: Managing 52 3rd & 4th graders??, 3/26/08, by debio.
- Re: Managing 52 3rd & 4th graders??, 3/26/08, by Resa.
- Re: Managing 52 3rd & 4th graders??, 3/26/08, by Greg Percy.
- Re: Managing 52 3rd & 4th graders??, 3/27/08, by Artkid.
- Re: Managing 52 3rd & 4th graders??, 3/27/08, by stxartteacher.

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