I would be careful about penalizing the whole class for the
behavior of some of the students. If I were a student who was
not causing problems but I got in troube any way I would not be
very happy with my teacher. This is more likely to make your
classroom management worse instead of better. (Why should I
behave correctly if I'm just going to get in trouble anyway.)
My kids don't want to have the apple so they straighten up very
quickly, but if they do get the apple they know that they have
a chance of getting off the hook if someone else messes up.
This gives it a light hearted way to maintain discipline and
they respond with humor instead of bad moods.

I also thought about your children that blurt out. If they
blurt out an answer instead of raising their hands, I just say
something like "That would have been a correct answer if your
hand had been raised. Does anyone know the correct answer?" I
then call on another child (usually one who struggles to answer
things correctly). Hopefully they listened to the other child
and can give me the correct answer and get the praise.

My students also know that I will call on everyone in class,
even if they don't raise their hands. I often use sticks with
their names on them and pull the sticks to pick the student who
is going to answer. Sometimes I put the sticks back in the
stack so they can be pulled again and sometimes I take them out
to make sure that eveyone gets a turn. I pay attention to who
has not answered so that if someone's name gets pulled more
than once I can fill in with another child (they don't know I'm
doing this). This keeps everyone involved since they don't
know when they will be called on to answer.

TN

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