EP178 How to act (rather than react) and stop wasting class time when kids are off-task

Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers

Angela Watson

Education, Courses

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🗓️ 13 October 2019

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Are you constantly losing instructional time to minor disruptions and off-task behavior? What if you shifted your focus from eliminating misbehavior and interruptions to maximizing learning time?

When the goal is to eliminate interruptions, you feel like you have to address every single one so it never happens again. When the goal is to maximize learning time, you can choose a more constructive response that keeps the majority of the class on-task.

This approach will reduce the wasted class time spent on lectures about the rules and arguing with kids over what you've told them to do. Here's how to plan your responses in advance so you're not constantly exploding in frustration over minor things.

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 178 of Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers. I'm your host
0:06.7	Angela Watson and I'm here to speak life, encouragement, and truth into the
0:12.4	minds and hearts of educators and get you energized for the week ahead.
0:16.0	Today I'm going to share how you can act rather than react to student behavior and stop losing so much class time when kids are off task.
0:25.0	Visit truth for teachers.com to get the transcript or find our new truth for
0:30.3	teachers podcast community on Facebook.
0:32.8	You can share your thoughts on the show there and reflect with other listeners in our private
0:36.5	group.
0:38.8	This episode is sponsored by View Sonic Education.
0:42.0	They are the creator of View Board, an interactive white board for the classroom, and
0:46.4	My View Board, which is a digital white boarding app. Together they help teachers create
0:51.5	engaging lessons at home and present them in the classroom.
0:55.0	Search the internet, open your favorite apps, and play educational videos, all from your digital whiteboard.
1:01.0	Finally, it's a solution that teaches the way that you do.
1:05.7	To learn more, visit viewsonic.com slash education.
1:11.6	One of the frustrations that I think has been common to every teacher in every location
1:17.0	across the history of time is that of having your instruction interrupted by someone who's not paying attention.
1:25.3	And I lead with that because I think it's important to have the larger context.
1:30.4	Students being off task is not a problem that is unique to you.
1:34.9	It is not necessarily something personal.
1:37.6	It's not something caused solely because of you.
1:40.6	And it's not something that you can ever solve 100%.
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