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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!


 

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