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Welcome to our first installment of Management Monday. On Mondays I will be sharing a simple classroom management strategy that we will be focusing on for a couple of weeks. Please take the time to read and learn about the strategy, and then do what you can to implement it in your classroom. As you implement the strategy, leave a comment on this post. You can share how the strategy is going in your classroom, ask a question you may have, or respond to someone else's comment. I hope we can all learn together and from each other!
So, without any further adieu, this week's Management Monday tip is...
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So I tried this technique mostly in math class. It is making some difference, but I have several children that just don't get, it and it is making the other kids a bit nuts. I like the percentages; I also have to bite my tongue so that I don't say too much. It is taking forever... but hopefully soon they will get the hang of it.
ReplyDeleteThanks for commenting, Jennifer! Keep with it. I promise it will get easier. You are doing a great job!
DeleteI noticed that some students who did the direction right away would sometimes get tired of waiting for the other students to follow the direction, and then they would stop following the direction. Overall, I feel like sticking to 100% helped the students follow directions more quickly, and I have had to repeat direction less.
ReplyDeleteI try to do this in all of my classes. Literacy for some reason is the best at it. I struggle with my homeroom getting 100%. I wait and wait and compliment students and say I'll wait until I have everyone with me. It feels like I'm waiting for hours up there. I'm still working towards 100%!
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ReplyDeleteThis is a technique that I will continue to keep working on. I have seen that it does work at times, but other times my students are clueless to what I am doing. I think it is something that will just take time for them to learn. It can be frustrating when I don't have everyone's attention, but when I do have their attention it is so much easier to teach.
ReplyDeleteI like it. The biggest problem I have with it is when I'm trying to get those last couple of kids listening I lose someone else.
ReplyDeleteI tried this right after we spoke about it during our debrief of your observation. I have my students set up in 5 tables, making it nice to just count by 20% to reach 100%. I use table points as well so I incorporated that in with the 100%. The first 4 tables to see that I'm waiting for 100% I reward with a point; the last table receives nothing. I have noticed a difference in the attitude and behavior of the students. They move with more purpose and speed, so as to get a point and/or not lose time from recess or other fun activities during the day such as storybird.com, prodigy, or secret student recess.
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DeleteIt was nice having this 100% management technique on my mind all the time. I voiced my concerns when we were talking about it in our meeting that I have some slow pokes that are just clueless when I am waiting for them. But it was surprising to see these students get better at recognizing when I was waiting for them. I liked this strategy and will continue to use it.
ReplyDeleteI love using 100% management techniques. When I am getting their attention and I do not have everyone, I will give them a percentage and see if we can do it better. I also let them know that we will wait until everyone is ready.
ReplyDeleteI know I need to do a job of getting 100%. I say "I am looking for 100% of eyes", I wait, and call students' names of who I am waiting for. I used to hate the time it took to wait, but it is so beneficial. All of my students should be listening so that I have a class full of learners. I need to remind myself that some students are able to listen, even if their eyes aren't on me. Especially my special education students. I used to hate the time it took to wait for 100%, but after practice it is very effective!
ReplyDeleteI personally need more buy-in with this strategy. I tried doing this in class. This one is harder for me because I feel that while I'm waiting for a couple of students to get on task I'm losing a few that already were. The top students the (good behavior students) are easy to keep on task, but we all have those that really struggle and when you have most of them on task it's hard to keep them there while we wait for our other friends to join us. Sometimes it feels like I'm spending all my time just trying to get everyone together. Sometimes I feel like I'd like to move on and go back and reteach those that were only partially engaged. Most of the time I find that I'm surprised by how much they actually picked up.
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