strengthening school wide PB4L

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We had a good session at our staff meeting today going over 'best practice strategies for responding to minor/major behaviours'
One that I am going to focus on in  my teaching is using signals or non-verbal cues.

This will be good for me and Room 1 students as I realise sometimes my own voice is loud and can be dominating and I revert to a loud 'oi' or such comment sometimes too.  
Rather than using a loud voice to discourage noise, I am going work with the class to come up with some signals we can all use when it's getting too loud and we want someone to shush so we can focus on our learning etc.  If we co-construct this together, the children will have ownership of it and will hopefully feel empowered, or have another way, to tell someone to shush.
I'll display pics for visual prompts, make sure we have lots of practise and reinforce with positive comments (and non-verbal cues ;)
I will ask Kalo for feedback as to whether she notices my loud voice a little less ;)

Comments

  1. Michelle15 May 2019 at 20:16

    I’d be really interested in this. I noticed the same thing today with me loudly telling the students to be quiet as I competed with the noise šŸ¤”. I’ve noticed that although Room 1 are becoming very good at managing themselves the teacher talk is still more than ideal. If we are working towards shifting that power dynamic we do need to look at management strategies that the students can take on so they can self regulate.

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  2. Alida16 May 2019 at 20:40

    I think this is something I need to try as well. I find that at the beginning of the block, I have a nice calm voice, and I am able to control my own volume, but by the end of the block, I am stressed for time, and trying to get work done, and then I tend to snap at the students using a louder than needed voice. I say "peanut butter" and the kids say "jelly", I ask them please use your inside voice, they use an inside voice for about 1 minute, then it escalates again. Let me know what you found worked the best so I can try it too...

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