Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Scenario 3
If you are in front of the entire class trying to correct a pretest so that everyone knows what to do for the test, what do you do if you have one student who is just yelling out all of the answers, sometimes before you even ask the question and the rest of the class is sitting there bored out of their minds. You don't want to ask the student not to answer because he is the type of student who if you did that he would probably find some other way to be disruptive and then he wouldn't be paying attention at all. Plus, chances are that if he were not yelling out the answers, no one else would have.
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I would maybe put the students into groups so that they have to answer as a group. This would keep the more active student still participating while letting the other students also have a voice. Another approach I might try is to have every student write down their answers on a piece of paper and have the teacher go over the answers so that no individual student is verbally answering the questions.
Well in this situation I would just ask that students stat raising their hands this may avoid the yelling at of the answers, and allow other students to give their answers. If this does not work just politely ask the student to let someone else answer. Te thing is the student shouldn’t get upset if you ask politely, because that is the key be respectful of that student
There are several different ways you could do this. The thing I would do is something that allows all the students to be involved. The best thing to do is to put them into groups so they can all discuss it, and if one student does not know the answer, typically someone else in the group will know. Then give each group a chance to answer the question.
In this situation I would give the student a job of sorts and ask him to complete. I believe this would remove him from direct contact concerning the pretest. It would give other students the opportunity to answer and engage in this activity. If this did not work, you could always send the student on an errand. I know you are covering important information, however it's obvious the student knows the content. I think you just need to keep this student occupied.
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