{"content":{"sharePage":{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"45102166","dateCreated":"1319708574","smartDate":"Oct 27, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"becca_hargis","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/becca_hargis","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/ened4415fall2011.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/45102166"},"dateDigested":1532093035,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Teaching Inquiry","description":"I am teaching at a middle school on the southern end of Cobb County called Garrett Middle School.  I teach Grammar, Reading, and Writing to \u201cregular\u201d 6th grade students.  This is not so much a diverse school.  It is primarily ELLs and African American students, all from a low socio-economic school.  The students in the two blocks I teach can be very chatty and disruptive, so my CT maintains a strict, no non-sense attitude in the classroom.  To control behavior, I\u2019ve heard MANY other teachers yelling and screaming and talking down to the students.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThis type of behavior management is not me.  I feel I have a better sense of control of the class, but I still can not be myself.  I am witty, light-hearted, kind, and sometimes silly and jovial.  I don\u2019t want the classroom environment to be a place of fear and negativity like the students find in other classes.  I want a classroom where students don\u2019t dread coming to, a place where they know they belong and will be understood.  I don\u2019t want to teach if I can\u2019t be myself.  Where\u2019s the joy in that?<br \/>\n But every time I\u2019m slightly playful or make an appropriate joke or try to redirect the students in a positive manner, it doesn\u2019t pay off, and the students can\u2019t handle it. The misbehavior continues.   The other teachers say that yelling and screaming and riding them hard is all the students know and all they respond to.  I believe in and want to teach the students that there are other ways to redirect their behavior.  I just don\u2019t know which approach to take?<br \/>\n<br \/>\n1)    How would you handle this?  How would you handle students that are continually disruptive in the classroom, despite all areas of intervention of kindness and sternness?<br \/>\n2)    Is there ever a time to be jovial in the classroom?<br \/>\n3)    What type of tone do you think you would set in this fast paced, stressed out classroom environment?  Would you yell and scream at the students the way the other teachers do?","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]}],"more":false},"comments":[]},"http":{"code":200,"status":"OK"},"redirectUrl":null,"javascript":null,"notices":{"warning":[],"error":[],"info":[],"success":[]}}