How Do You Keep Your Students Engaged ?

I am a teacher. I got the the teaching job recently, and I am learning how to constantly keep the students engaged so as to avoid unnecessary noise making in the class.

I'd appreciate some wonderful contributions, either from teachers or students. Both sides are welcomed.

Many thanks

 

how old are you students? That depends on the students. If you have kids and teenagers they would love to have games. I am a teacher myself, so I have a lot of games. I also used the reward system for the students. For adult students they would love to have discussion or research or discussion based on research works.

Congratulations on your new job.

 

I want to share with you @Festus two crucial strategies to help with maximizing classroom management. You have to make sure that you are maximizing class time from start to finish because if they have any idle time then that is where a lot of the low level behavior problems are going to come.

1.Daily Activities.

I want to be clear in saying that these daily activities don't have to be the same thing every single day. The one thing that you really must take into consideration is they have to start immediately. As soon as the bell ring, the expectation should be that this activity is going to start immediately. You want to make sure that this activity is relevant to them and actually meaningful.

2.Promise Them Something In The End

Let them know at the very start of the class that the last minutes of the class will be spent discussing what's important to students or students' concerns, however you want to work it. But also let them know that at the end of class you are also going to be sharing something that you've just found out regarding a student nearby, and how it is also going to impact their lives. What this does is it feeds their interests and the thing that you want to know going into this is that it can be something positive, it can be something negative, it can be about a student that doesn't even live in their community. But then again, when you word it as such, it causes them to think that it's one of their peers. When you pick someone's curiosity, you have their attention. Here are some of the benefits;
a) One thing that it does is it actually
addresses their concerns because
they want to know, do you care?
do you understand? Even when
you don't tell them what it is, you
give them a sense that you at least
understand their world by doing
research on one of their friends.
b) the second and the most important
thing is it actually keeps them enga-
ged because you are promising to
share something with them that will
Impact their lives. The thing is, what's
most powerful is that you tell them
that you are going to share it in the
end. What do you think they are going
to be thinking about the entire time
While they are in class? The thing about
young people, no matter if it is element-
ary or high school, they don't like to not
Know something that you know. A lot of
your students that might even be disrup-
tive are going be on much better behavi-
or because they want to know what is in
the end. If you can make this a common
Practice in your class @Festus, you can
train them what to expect and what to do
In order to get what they expect in the
end. I hope this helps, good luck.

 

It really depends on how old your students are. I am a teaching assistant in an infant school to the 5-year-old class, and it is a mighty hard job to retain their attention with anything. We try to play games, do various activities, we let them play sufficiently so that they don't get bored, tired, etc. However, some days they just go crazy altogether and there isn't much that you can do other than try and talk it out, or, if necessary, scould them, punish them by taking away a toy or taking away their playground time, or talk to their parents about their behavior. It happens sometimes and it's nothing to beat yourself up over. Good luck!

 

I am sure that 90% of your success depends on you. I am an English teacher and have working experience with students from 4 to 20 years old. Your spirit and attitude are crucial.

Just remember that there are no bad children, there are poor-skilled teachers. If any boy sits silently and calmly for the whole lesson, he is ill. A healthy boy cannot sit silently for 45 minutes. Here is your choice: either you will make him interested in challenging tasks or he will interrupt you with unnecessary noise.

I got these thoughts from psychologists' lessons and books. You can also dedicate some time to it, it will help you. Good luck!