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68. What To Do When Students Won't Stop Talking
Students won’t stop talking in your classroom? If you feel like you spend your entire day saying “stop talking” and “shhh,” to talkative students, this episode is for you! Molly shares 6 simple strategies to help get your chatty class and student talking under control without expecting your classroom to be silent all day. Learn how to give students appropriate times to talk, explicitly teach and model your expectations, use picture books and voice levels, introduce silent hand signals, and support individual students who just can’t seem to stop talking. Resources Mentioned In This Episode: </p...
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If you feel like you spend your entire day saying stop talking and shh, this episode is for you. With more than three decades in the classroom, I've dealt with plenty of chatty kids. And today I'm sharing six simple strategies you can do to get the talking under control
without expecting your class to be silent all day. So let's go. Alright, strategy number one is actually to give kids time to talk, which may sound counter productive to what this episode is about, but hear me out.
First of all, not talking doesn't really come naturally to kids. Basically for their whole life, parents have been encouraging kids to talk and speak, and then they come to school and suddenly they're not allowed to talk. They just aren't used to being not allowed to talk.
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