Having one kid at home is itself tiring. Having to move with multiple of kids at one time is beyond words. Teaching kids have never been easy unless you did have some magical power to put a spell on them to sit and behave. However, let me help you out by giving you three tips that would help you maintain your student's attention.
Start off your sessions with a warm-up activity
Beginning your days lesson with a warm up is a sure way to keep you students interested and make them come out of their bubble and dreamland. Don't make it tiring task for yourself and the kids. Make it something that helps you ease into the lesson environment. Group your class into manageable teams. Assign a whole class activity that is designed to cater and put the student's in the mood for the day's lesson. The team that completes the work first gets to be your star group. To maintain a friendly atmosphere in your classroom make sure to regroup the teams every month, so any negative environment is left out.
2. Attention grabbers
Let's face it, no matter how good of a lesson you have planned, your students will definitely distract themselves, talk with their partner or worse get into silly fights. Times like this you feel like 'What am I?' or "Did I accidentally step into a zoo?". All of us have definitely faced this situation. Rather than making it a strict shout out to your kids, get them to use attention grabbers. What are these attention grabbers? These are words that we can use instead of just shouting 'Attention, please', which seems to never work.
Meredith Rose has pointed out few fun attention grabbers on Classroom Management like:
Teacher Student
Everybody Rock Everybody Roll
Hocus Pocus Everybody Focus
Scooby Dooby Doo Where are you?
Go ahead and check out these wonderful attention grabbers by Meredith Rose
3. Involve movement in your lesson
As an adult sitting in one place listening to a lecture drains out the best of us. It is with such difficulty and high discipline that we sit and listen to it. Our kids doesn't experience any less. So in order to have them focused and attentive in class try getting them out of their chairs and move around with some actions related to the lesson.
These great three tips have been a life saver for me and I make sure of it incorporate these ideas in my lessons. Let me know how these tips turned out to be. If you have other different ways please do let me know about them so that all of us could learn.
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