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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!) Giving the students a specific time to sharpen their pencils and get ready before class could be helpful. Having those extra sharpened pencils will also be good. They should be able to make it through without getting up. Sometimes the students just get up because they are bored or unengaged. I think that taking a thirty second stretch break could eliminate students getting up to sharpen pencils unnecessarily. If you have this consistently planned in your lesson plan it should not be that big of an adjustment. |
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