classroom management and behaviour for KS1

[ali3]

Dear All

I've been doing supply for three weeks now and I'm enjoying it immensely. I've had some excellent days with Year 3 and Year 4 and got some good work out of them. My one day with a year 2 class - I found the classroom management difficult. There were some children who said they'd finished within five/ten minutes whilst other children were struggling to write a sentence. Children started to form a line while I was trying to support low attaining children. I told them to sit down and announced an extension activity but I felt it had a negative effect on behaviour and within a few minutes I then had children saying they'd finished the extension activity!

there wasn't any reward system I could use for tables, so next time I'm taking in my own with small prizes at the end of the day. I also wondered about making it clear when I send them off to tables that I've looked at their books and know what they normally do and stating I'm expecting good work.

any advice would be welcome. I want to set things up so I can praise them but I feel I need to manage behaviour and the classroom differently to be able to do that.

thanks

ali3

[NuttySupplier]

Hi ali3, welcome to the forum!

One thing I thought of immediately was a stamp to get your queue down quickly! It may just be a smiley, or there are stamps I'm sure that'll prompt them to do something, even if it's 'please check your spelling'... Tell the first two in the line to sit on the carpet and read eachother's sentences, tell your partner about your work... lots of talk time!!