Check out this Teach Like a Champion tip to assist with Classroom Management which leads to increased levels of Cognitive Engagement throughout the lesson! What strategies are you using to get student attention? Do you settle for compliance from MOST and not ALL? consider this tip! How might you introduce this? Watch the clip to see it in action!
Technique 36:Â 100 percent.
100 percent means that a teacher expects 100 percent compliance. The trick is to be sure that your expectations are reasonable and that asking for 100 percent compliance does not become a power struggle.
A teacher who asks her class to be quiet by having the class raise their hands when she raises hers. Often teachers will accept the performance of a class if they are quiet, although only 60 percent of the class raises their hands. It gives the class the message that less than 100 percent is acceptable, and that message may become a real problem, when things continue to slip down the slippery slope. What would be a better result? Asking that when the teachers hand goes up, the class is quiet, hands are on top of desks and feet are flat on the floor. That leads to an automatic and smooth transition to instruction.
Enforcement needs to be steady, considerate and unemotional. If students know that compliance is not negotiable, they will follow through
