Classroom mangagement

Within every classroom there is going to probably be issues with behavior. Recently we have been having trouble with excessive talking and interrupting. So in order to address this issue in our science classroom we initiated a “Classroom Interuption Log”. The first time a student is called down they receive a warning. The next is outside lunch privileges are revoked, and so on. For the most part the kids figured out that they could talk until the first warning and then they would behave. After a couple of weeks of implementing this plan the results differed in some classes and grade levels. The classes that got the message the log only has to be pulled out every once in a while to get results. The classes that wanted to push the limit on talking got a speech from me. I basically talked straight to them, telling them that I really didn’t enjoy having to use the log and that I knew they were tired of it. I explained to them that there was really no reason for us to have to keep dealing with this issue and that I knew that were old enough to know better. It has not been an issue for a couple of weeks.