IF YOUR STUDENTS:	THEN YOU SHOULD:
Enter the classroom noisily with too much movement	Try standing at the door and redirect each student as they enter (say: “I know you’re going to do very good today.”) Be sure to have a PROCEDURE for entering your class. To find out if you do, ask the students. “What is the procedure for coming into “our” classroom?”
Talk excessively in class	Re-establish voice levels. Know that your yelling ONLY confirms and credits YELLING as the way of communication. Don’t ask student to stay away from something that you often use and model before them! Ask, “How many of you can show me the three voice levels-0, 1, & 2?” Play the “quiet” game with them. Students: We are going to play the quiet game just to give you an opportunity to gain a few bonus points. This is how it works: When I say start, everyone that can remain quiet for 5 minutes gets 5 bonus points that you can use however you’d like!
Ask a lot of questions	Daily review the class procedures. Good procedures ANSWER all the questions that the student would otherwise ask. Class: What is the procedure for sharpening your pencil? What is the procedure for speaking? What is the procedure for moving about in the room?
Won’t engage in the class work	Call that student aside to a PRIVATE area of the room. Ask the student personal questions about how they might be feeling or how things are going for them up to that point. Students can have REAL problems too than CAN prohibit them for engaging in the work just the same as adults! You won’t know until you ask!
Students have to be told over and over to be quiet	STOP teaching them that! Each time you tell them again, by you LEAD, they are learning that they will NOT have to get quiet until you gotten to your FRUSTRATION level. Please don’t teach that. Move about the room to get the attention from ALL students first, then ASK once for them to be quiet and simply wait for that. When you do that, they have done what you’ve asked the first time you’ve asked them (don’t let the delay in time throw you). The time factor will decease with YOUR consistency! My challenge to you is to get “good” at this. Don’t run away from acquiring good management skill by laying blame…hmmm that’s a thought!
Don’t seem to want to learn	Ask them what motivates them to learn…listen to them, then readjust your strategies and techniques! Don’t be scarred!