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!) Depending on what grade it is, you could use something called a quiet critter. I teach pre-k, but they can be adapted for other grade levels. My quiet critters are just little pom pom balls with eyes on it. I use them especially when the majority of my class is talking out of turn or not listening during whole group activities. If a student is listening and not talking out, I give them a quiet critter. This is incentive enough for them, because then the rest of the students want one too. But I go a little bit further with it and if they have a quiet critter at the end of the activity (if they play with it and are off task it comes back to me)they earn a point on the Class Dojo system.                 Rating The suggested solution is respectful of the individual (student) Yes The suggested solution is relevant to the case Yes The suggested solution is reasonable (easy) for the teacher to implement Yes The suggested solution is likely to solve the problem/issue Yes The suggested solution is original Yes Comments: Nice way to redirect and show what modeled behavior you would like from the students as a whole. Rated On: February 21, 2018 10:10 pm Rated By: Simone Haddad