1 . First, make clear to all the children, what are the rules of the class:
·
at your signal – you ring a bell, or you start
singing or you play an instrument everyone must pay attention to you.
·
Nobody leaves the class without your permission.
·
If any child need help with anything, he/she
must come to you. (They cannot fight with the classmate which annoyingly,
bothers them or they can’t take something by hurting others).
·
When a child needs a toy or a book from another
child, he/ she has to ask politely and if is refused, then the child comes and
asks it from the teacher.
·
The children do not take anything home, they do
not damage toys, tools or books, if that happens the teacher work together with
the child to repair the damage or at least explain to the child how affects
everyone his/her behaviour.
·
you let the children know that the class has a
special place where disobedient children get to sit, if they refuse to
cooperate, even they had received chances, before.
2. Sing as much time and situation permit you
and even sing out commands for certain children who are more difficult to
manage. If a child will ignore your “sung command”, dare to approach him, touch
him on his/her shoulder and sing very close to his/her ear; May be situations
when you have to take by hand the child and help him/her to take a sit, while
you are singing the command: “Now we, all, are sitting….” David is sitting
too…” Some of the children may be so wild that they will not respond to any of the
mentioned commands: in that case you take the child out and make sure the child
is looking in your eyes; you explain to him/her that now is time to be sited or
whatever you want them to do. Here you can negotiate with the child – if he/her
wants to be heard by you, they must obey you, otherwise you will not hear them
when they need you – you really have to let the child experience how it is to
not be heard by you; or you explain that children which refuse to obey must
take rest on the “named chair”, where they must think how to make it better.(
when they have a solution or apologies, they are release from sitting on the
named chair).
3. When
you see that your class is going wild, stop any activity and play a game that
burns energy, or just tell the children “we will take a brake and now we all
are dancing for …” (you can be creative and make a connection with your
subject); Choose a song that allow children jump and just after you consider it
was enough, go back to your activity. Do not forget that you, as a teacher,
must keep the pulse of the class at the normal bit.
4. Have
patient with the children, allow them time to get used with the rules of the
class, be kind and full of understanding. Do not set high expectations! Learn
to rejoice over every small step towards normality. For example, the Welsh
revival of 1904-05, brought profane swearing stopped. Because of that, even the
miners’ horses were puzzled when their masters stopped cursing. Most of the
rroma kids are not used to receive respect, kindness and love.
5. I
remember that as a Sunday school teacher I was facing lack of interest and
punctuality at the class; then I decide to make a way to reward each child with
points for being on time in the class, for attending the class consistently,
for making his/her homework. At the end of three months or semester I opened a
“Shop”, where with these points the children could buy, in the limit of their
earned points, whatever they wanted from the existed articles; the child with
the most points collected, opened the shop and he/she was the first customer. I
consider it was an effective way to make the children longing to come at the
class regularly and on time. I’ve seen similar system at Tulip house, in
Tarnaveni, where students were rewarded with special coins for their
responsibility, consistently, interest and effort in improving their education.
(You can choose this rewarding system and do it as often you can afford – once
in a month or once in a year).
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