On this day, the teacher was doing a lesson over the Declaration of Independence. She broke the students up in to groups the previous day and they each had a hard copy of the Declaration of Independence on their desk. While the teacher was giving instructions some of the students started to talk in their groups. The teacher stopped and waited at the front of the classroom, she had her hand up counting until all the students finished talking. If she would have made it to five the students would have owed her 30 seconds after the bell. This intervention was effective, none of the students wanted to have to be held after the bell so they were started telling each other to be quiet.
The teacher continued giving the students the instructions. Just a few minutes in, a student started to whisper to the student next to him. The teacher continued with the instruction, but gave the student “the look.” This was effective for the student as he immediately stopped talking and started paying attention.
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One student decided he was going to through a piece of paper at one of the other groups across the room while he thought the teacher wasn’t watching. When she saw it happen she finished up with the student she was talking to at the moment and went over to the student that threw the paper and asked him to step to the side and talk to her. She asked him “why did you throw that paper?” He replied with the famous, “I don’t know.” She then told him this was his warning, and if he did it again he was going to the office. The student began to work with his group after the talk with the