Michele Lee

I handle it the same as James, and then I will often times call upon my quieter students and ask them specific questions regarding the subject matter to engage them.

James Torres

Joseph;

I seem to always have one student in each of my classes that want to be heard all the time and most of it is all about attention and having the other students either laugh at them or stop and listen to what they have to say. I usually take a few minutes also to listen to what is being said and when I feel this has nothing to do with the subject out hand or is offering anything to the discussion, I cut if off and let them know this should be discussed at another time.

James Torres

Jacqueline Bringht

That has happened to me before. I take that student and she becomes the helper, sometimes I may have to or three helpers. One might be assigned to put a motivation speech on the board for a week, one to clean the board or make sure that everyone does their part in leaving the room clean when we leave. Rotate the duties. When we go on field trips assign that student a leadership.

Patricia Scales

Hi Barbara,
It does work, and it is just that easy to do. Never let one particular student or a few select students control the atmosphere.
Patricia

Barbara Bray

I say to the student that I appreciate their input, but now I want input from the students who have not spoken. This tends to work.

Paula Cisewski

I have the same conversation with at least one student in many of my classes.

An in-class activity I like is this:

I get everyone's attention as if I'm going to speak, and then I am silent and I don't let anyone else speak for at least 30 seconds. It makes just about everyone a little uncomfortable, but itdrives the attention-seeking students crazy!

Then we talk about how some people are uncomfortable with silence and are being polite by trying to fill it, while others are trying to be polite by waiting to see if anyone wants to answer first. I ask all students to self monitor.

Sometimes it works.