Showing posts with label voice levels. Show all posts
Showing posts with label voice levels. Show all posts

Saturday, September 21, 2013

voice levels

For some reason, my students are super talkative this year.

They've been this way since second or third grade, so I know it's not me.

Across the grade level, we just have a lot of talkers.

Talking is a wonderful thing and I like that my students are so eager to share their thoughts with one another.

However, when the volume escalates quickly and I can't hear my small group, we have a problem.

I'm trying the "my turn" and "your turn" strategy to reinforce that in my classroom, we share and respect one another.

I found this:

I want to recreate it for my classroom :)  

Perhaps it will drive home my point!