Normally you would enforce a consequence. But since you were still teaching your plan, you would stop talking, take a step back, wait until they’re quite and looking at you, then explain/show your students why it’s important to raise your hand (interrupts, wastes time, ruins fun, etc.). It’s also a great opportunity to model, reinforce, or reteach what happens when they call out and break a rule.

Michael

I love your idea of the “classroom management plan”. Today was the first day I tried it out…I passed out a copy to all the students and I’m going to hang one copy on the wall of the classroom. Today, as I was explaining the rules and consequences to them, I tried the role playing thing. Everything was going great, but then I encountered a problem, especially with my kindergarteners. I chose a few students to take turns being the teacher while I played the role of a student. They really enjoyed this, but then as I was trying to talk to them, they kept raising their hands and shouting out “Ooh, I want to be the teacher!” instead of paying attention to what I was trying to teach them.

What would you do in such circumstances?

Thanks!
S.S.

Visualize how you want your conversations with students to look and sound like (optimally), and then model it for them. Show them exactly how to be active and involved in their interactions with you and each other without taking it too far. Practice it until they get it, and then don’t accept anything less than what you want.

Glad you found the website! I hope you become a regular reader.

Michael