Welcome to Season 4 episode 8 of Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers.

I'm your host Angela Watson and I'm here to speak life, encouragement, and truth into the minds and hearts of educators and get you energized for the week ahead.

Today I'm going to answer some classroom management

questions that podcast listeners have asked me.

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So if you've been listening to the podcast in previous seasons, then you'll remember that I have a feature

called Ask Angela anything, where I answer teachers questions. And in the past I've dedicated an entire

episode to each question so that I can give a really thorough response. But that

limits the amount of questions that I can respond to.

And if someone asks a question that I didn't feel I could spend 10 to 15 minutes talking about

or if I felt like I couldn't make the topic feel relevant to the really diverse audience of teachers who listen to the show, then I just didn't answer it.

So this season I thought it might be fun to answer a couple of questions briefly altogether in one episode. In fact I am challenging myself to answer five

questions in 15 minutes. Quick and to the point which is not necessarily my style. You

guys know that I like to be detailed and

thorough but I'm going outside the box here I'm going to do something different

so here we go this first question is from Natasha who said when I teach eight to 11 year olds they tend to get very noisy

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