Home | How It Works | Stats Login | Register         Case: Student yelling out all of the answers If you are in front of the entire class trying to correct a pretest so that everyone knows what to do for the test, what do you do if you have one student who is just yelling out all of the answers, sometimes before you even ask the question and the rest of the class is sitting there bored out of their minds. You don't want to ask the student not to answer because he is the type of student who if you did that he would probably find some other way to be disruptive and then he wouldn't be paying attention at all. Plus, chances are that if he were not yelling out the answers, no one else would have. Solution: (Rates are posted for this solution!) I have been in a classroom where there was one student who was always so eager to answer every question that he would just yell out all of the answers as well. I decided to call on different students and use their name before saying anything else. For example, I would say: "Rebecca, what did you get for number 2?" By using different student's names first, the one who kept yelling out knew that it was time to give someone else a chance to answer and would refrain from calling out the answers. Also, if I were recording the answers on the board, I would give this student the job of being the 'recorder' so that he stayed busy rather than getting bored from not being able to answer every single question.