Comments on: When I talk, you listen.

By: Recent Finds | TechWarrior

Recent Finds | TechWarrior — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 20:23:16 +0000

[…] at Dy/Dan talks about classroom management.Â Since it might be blocked for you, he talks about grabbing your students attention, and then […]

By: Meg

Meg — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 18:30:31 +0000

Are you sure you aren’t the parent of four small children?

By: ken

ken — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 03:33:11 +0000

I think a 6’7″ frame is effective class management.

Try 5’7″!

Wait…is that a ‘no’ I hear?

By: Cosine

Cosine — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 20:19:00 +0000

Now there’s a fun edupoll waiting to happen. What do you call your students? Reflect on it. Why have you made that verbal decision, and what does it mean (if anything)?

In fact, I have just put it up. ;)

http://theline.edublogs.org/2008/01/20/what-do-you-call-your-students/

I have three levels of nicknames for my students, apparently. In general use they are “chickies” or “chickadees.” This is exactly what I call my two toddlers, so clearly there’s a maternal thing going there.

For more serious, grandiose, or pressing issues, “ladies and gentlemen” is what usually comes out.

And then there’s the “I’m about to say something so earth-shatteringly wise that I hope it will change your life, so pay attention” moment, and that name for them is the highly socialist, and therefore somewhat ironic, “PEOPLE.”

By: » What do you call your students? The Line

» What do you call your students? The Line — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 20:15:01 +0000

[…] topic came out sideways at Dy/Dan recently and the linguist in me got interested. For fun– what do you call your students and […]

By: TMAO

TMAO — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 01:02:17 +0000

I call em canguros or parajos myself. Can’t rightly explain why.

By: Jenny

Jenny — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 00:10:41 +0000

This is just more proof to me that the best teachers have thought through everything. I don’t mean that your whole lesson or class period is scripted, but that you have a thorough plan for everything. Powerful.

Just to add on to previous comments, I noticed the boys and girls thing. It struck me in a similar vein to Lisa. I call my 5th graders ladies and gentlemen as well. They know we’ve got a problem when I revert to boys and girls.

By: dan

dan — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 16:59:04 +0000

Rich, yeah, "boys and girls" is so much a part of my default classroom interaction ("bye bye, boys and girls, good to see you again today") I didn't even notice it until here, where y'all have called me out proper. Rick, if one or two students are talking, I'll just start writing names down slowly while everyone shushes them quickly.

By: Rick

Rick — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 16:33:56 +0000

Good stuff, Dan. I agree that this can be applied to staff meetings as well. What do you do after that 5 seconds, if/when there are more than just one or two students still talking? I’m thinking about those occasional days when something different is going on in school that day: Homecoming, cool assembly in 15 minutes, etc… I guess I’m just wondering if you have a plan B in place.

By: Rich

Rich — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 16:31:04 +0000

Ahh, I was wondering if all of those empty seats in your room ever gave you much trouble (they certainly don’t have problems talking after your countdown!). But your explanation above cleared that right up. And tagging off Liza’s comment, I also caught that you called your students “boys and girls” (does that happen with a full class also?). I most often say “folks” but maybe that’s a little bit of a Southern thing….