Comments on: Make Love not War – How to Control an Unruly Class http://www.soyouwanttoteach.com/make-love-not-war-how-to-control-an-unruly-class/ Providing HOPE for educators since 2007 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 07:07:56 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Ms. Mize http://www.soyouwanttoteach.com/make-love-not-war-how-to-control-an-unruly-class/#comment-2436 Ms. Mize Sat, 26 Jul 2008 21:14:52 +0000 http://www.soyouwanttoteach.com/?p=522#comment-2436 I agree. I have also found that many times I can catch it before it escalates. I am not one to have a silent classroom. I am just alert and pay attention if the noise begins to rise above the norm. Then I take action before chaos ensues. I agree. I have also found that many times I can catch it before it escalates. I am not one to have a silent classroom. I am just alert and pay attention if the noise begins to rise above the norm. Then I take action before chaos ensues.

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]]> By: Eva http://www.soyouwanttoteach.com/make-love-not-war-how-to-control-an-unruly-class/#comment-2435 Eva Sat, 26 Jul 2008 20:23:54 +0000 http://www.soyouwanttoteach.com/?p=522#comment-2435 Hi Heather, You are right that teaching has to be one of the most taxing jobs! I liked your comments and only disagree with you on one point---punishing the whole class when the room is noisy. I have found that if I speak to them and say they will have to give me some of their recess time if they don't calm down, most of them will. Then the ones who don't are the ones who receive the consequences at recess time. I know I feel this way because I am the mother of two quiet children---notice I didn't say perfect children----and they had to miss recess sometimes because the class was noisy. I have also seen some of my first grade students, who almost always follow the rules, be punished with the whole class (by lunchroom workers) when they were sitting quietly. I know that sometimes this means very few kids in the class who are trying to comply with the rules, but I think it is grossly unfair to those students. After a while, they would probably think---why even try? I think you probably meant to only use this rule when all else fails---and sometimes everything else DOES fail. I've just seen some teachers use this method A LOT and I hope new teachers won't pick it up. Hi Heather,
You are right that teaching has to be one of the most taxing jobs! I liked your comments and only disagree with you on one point—punishing the whole class when the room is noisy. I have found that if I speak to them and say they will have to give me some of their recess time if they don’t calm down, most of them will. Then the ones who don’t are the ones who receive the consequences at recess time.

I know I feel this way because I am the mother of two quiet children—notice I didn’t say perfect children—-and they had to miss recess sometimes because the class was noisy. I have also seen some of my first grade students, who almost always follow the rules, be punished with the whole class (by lunchroom workers) when they were sitting quietly. I know that sometimes this means very few kids in the class who are trying to comply with the rules, but I think it is grossly unfair to those students. After a while, they would probably think—why even try?

I think you probably meant to only use this rule when all else fails—and sometimes everything else DOES fail. I’ve just seen some teachers use this method A LOT and I hope new teachers won’t pick it up.

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