Achieving a quiet working "buzz".

[NuttySupplier]

LOL! Glad at least you had a lovely day! Poor hubby... you'll have to make him breakfast in bed tomorrow to make up for it!

[audrey]

Welcome to the forum Aitch, glad that you had a good day (poor OH though). Enjoy supply
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[still here]

Just looked in here becuase of the thread title. My quiet working buzz is the tinnitus I have after covering a class of year ones who have a shouty teacher and very shouty TA. Both nice women I'm sure but bloody hell is it hard to teach a class where the kids yell at you and expect to be yelled at back!

Hays recommend no shouting. I try not to because,unlike the CT/TA, if I lose my voice I won't get any sick pay.

So, apropos of nothing but the thread title - MY POOR LITTLE EARS ARE RINGING
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[NuttySupplier]

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[Hectare]

I try to get classes to be quiet by being quiet myself and I stick to this come hell or high water. Unfortunately, these days children expect to shout and be shouted at. Catching children co-operating or working is usually good, if you are not distracted by the noisy individuals.

[spitfire]

I am working on a book on behaviour management for supply teachers. There are alot of techniques that I use to quiet a noisy class. But what I would do first is tell the children that I have some magic liquid, and that I'll put a drop on a desk of the quiet groups. I am actually using disappearing ink (available from toy or magic stores) which is designed to disappear in about 20 - 30 minutes. I tell the children that the liquid does not like noise and that if they are very quiet it will perform magic: maybe disappear and change into clear water, change
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s, bubble, etc... I remind them not to touch the liquid and not to taste it ("It will give you a tummy ache if you taste it"). (I would not use it with very young children or developmentally delayed children). I also tell the children that it does not like to be stared at;they can look at it occasionally. If someone accidently touches it, simply replace the drop with another drop. The children soon become very quiet.