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Classroom Management Chatboard TOP POSTS ALL POSTS SUBMIT POST Search Teachers.Net Advanced You're on the... Classroom Management Chatboard top posts | all posts | submit post Make Classroom Management a Favorite! We also recommend... Interest Groups Classroom Management Mailring Lesson Plans • Math • Language Arts • Science • Social Studies • Music • Art & Crafts • Phys Ed • Other Teacher Chatboards • latest posts • by subject • by grade level • by state • all chatboards • language arts center • technology center • foreign language center • hot topics • interest groups Teaching Jobs Classroom Projects Teacher Mailrings Teachers.Net Gazette • Current Issue • Harry Wong Column • Teacher Classified Ads • Classroom Printables next post skip topic Print | Share | Report Post Re: Help With Silly 6th Grade Boys! Posted by 6th Grade Teacher on 9/04/08 Thank you so much for the helpful response and the sample questions. I am going to give this a try next time one of them gets silly. It is just the two boys, but then they will do something and get the others giggling. One of my very quiet girls even wrote in her journal today how funny this one boy is and how he makes everyone laugh at lunch. It almost seemed like she thought it was cool. This seems to happen a lot more in the afternoon in the morning so I think I also am going to start off the afternoon by calling the class together and going over our expectations daily and reminding the class that I need everyone to be a focused, serious learner. I think part of the problem is that I am one of the younger grade level teachers and I look about 5 years younger than I am so I think a lot of times the kids do not take me as seriously as some of the older teachers. Last year I tried to be more like those teachers-all serious and all business and it failed big time. My principal just saw me as being too strict and the kids did not respond so this year I came in with a friendly, but firm approach and having read a few books on classroom management that really seemed to help me, especially how I deal out consequences. Last year I would get kids arguing with me all the time. This year I have been simply telling them to move and cutting them off when they try to argue with me. Today a boy started to argue with me and I told him nicely a second time what he needed to do and one of the other kids actually said to him, "Just do it already, would you." So I think some of the kids are starting to get on board with my new approach (I had half of them last year in 5th grade and it was a very tough year for me. RESPOND TO THIS POST START A NEW THREAD RETURN TO CHATBOARD Posts on this thread, including this one Help With Silly 6th Grade Boys!, 9/03/08, by 6th Grade Teacher. Re: Help With Silly 6th Grade Boys!, 9/03/08, by Kerry in BC. Re: Help With Silly 6th Grade Boys!, 9/04/08, by 6th Grade Teacher. Re: Help With Silly 6th Grade Boys!, 9/04/08, by Kerry in BC. Re: Help With Silly 6th Grade Boys! Asking VS Telling, 9/05/08, by ~connie . Re: Help With Silly 6th Grade Boys ... And Older Folks!, 9/05/08, by Tom. Re: Help With Silly 6th Grade Boys!, 9/06/08, by Lee.

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