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My school has lots of students that do not understand inside voices. They yell in the hallways. They speak loudly in many classrooms. I, on the other hand, do not think it is acceptable to speak so loudly. How do I teach students to use their inside voices in a school that does not?
Solution: (Rates are posted for this solution!)
Something that I have found to be super useful in the classroom is when my students become too loud, I will lower my voice to a whisper. When I lower my voice, students are forced to lower there's and even to stop talking so that they may hear me. I will ask them to respond in a whisper tone too and that gets the class volume down quickly and with little effort.