Home | How It Works | Stats Login | Register         Case: Students talk too much There is this girl who talks entirely too much throughout the day. I tell her to be quiet, but when she isn't quiet, all she does is talk. I don't know how to approach it, especially because it's annoying. Help! Solution: (Rates are posted for this solution!) This is my first year with older students where talking is really a problem. I have found that my super talkative ones are much more likely to listen to their classmates than me when it comes to not talking ALL the time. I have a three screens on my interactive board... one red, one yellow, and one green. When the noise level is appropriate, I have it on green. If it gets too loud, I turn it to yellow. This indicates they have 2 minutes to get it together. If they don't, or if it is a time where they should not be talking, I have it on red. The red indicates five minutes of silence. Each time someone talks during this time period, the five minute silence starts again. It only takes one or two times of that one child blurting out that he or she stops because he knows his classmates are getting frustrated.