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Case: Pencil Sharpener A few students in the classroom I am observing in get up unnecessarily several time during a lesson to sharpen their pencil. The pencil is not dull nor broken and the student will still get up to sharpen their pencil during instructional time. This distracts the other students and causes the misbehaving student to miss out on learning. The teacher I am observing has tried implementing a strategy where four fully sharpened pencils are given to each student prior to the beginning of class to limit the amount of times students need to use the sharpener. However, even with this new strategy, I witnessed a few students purposely breaking their pencil just so they could get up and sharpen it. What strategies could be used to prevent students from using the pencil sharpener as an excuse to distract themselves during a lesson? Solution: (Rates are posted for this solution!) I think that giving the students four fully sharpened pencils at the beginning of class is a great solution to the problem but it needs to be backed up by positive and negative reinforcement. Students who have more than one pencil sharpened at the end of class gets all small reward. If the classroom management plan includes money or dojo points the students could owe for breaking all of the points. This would increase the students' responsibility for keeping the pencils sharp. Students who get up to sharpen pencils through out the class could loose money or dojo points as well. |
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