Middle school behavior management

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You have the chatty class this year...for an entire school year! It can be really hard to deal with from a behavior management perspective...but you're not alone! This blog post explains five classroom management strategies to help you manage your talkative students. These include nonverbal signals with chimes, using the Too Noisy app, explicitly teaching voice levels, and more. If you need new ideas for a behavior management approach, you will want to read through this post!

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Real talk: classroom management has always been my biggest struggle as a teacher. I think that this is true for a lot of teachers. It’s one thing to read about classroom management strategies in a college classroom, but it’s a whole other ballgame when you’re standing in front of a roomful of middle schoolers and you are somehow expected to keep them all in line! I’ve had a few tough groups over my first few years, and I needed something to up my classroom management game. The classroom…

Simple strategies to monitor and manage classroom behaviors and turn your classroom management style into a positive learning environment.

I never bought into the whole Clip Chart thing. As a parent, if I saw my child was on GREEN (or whatever the acceptable color is nowadays), I would still wonder if my kid made mistakes that needed a parent's guidance, or even worse, was a complete A$$ at school. I get that kids need a chance to redeem themselves, but kids are so smart that they will goof off all day and pull it together in the last hour. I've seen it happen. So with three words, I manage the expectations and behaviors in my…

This simple behavior management strategy allowed me to anticipate possible behaviors that would happen and plan my reaction or consequence.

Stop negative behavior in your classroom before it starts by reinforcing your expectations and recognizing positive student behaviors. With two simple tools, I successfully managed student behavior at the secondary level. A ticket system and "shout outs" are little to no cost, require little work for you as the teacher, and will encourage on task, positive behavior from your middle school and high school students.

Managing a chatty classroom is a skill that any middle school teacher must learn. These seven tips will help manage the talking in their classroom.