I must confess.
As a teacher, there was no day I don't yell or shout in the classroom. Sometimes, to prevent this situation, I will resort to the Cane.
And as a parent, hmmmm. Ugh! I can't count.
There are several educators and parents who find it difficult to control their children and hence result to yelling, the use of the cane or in some extreme situation insults.
Children would forever remain complex beings we would have to deal with as educators.
Michael Linsin explains: “When you yell, you train your students to listen to you only when you raise your voice. In other words, they learn that unless you’re shouting, you must not really mean it.”
Yelling is the chief tool that most desperate educators or parents adopt to control children.
Yelling is a costly mistake.
Here is how...
1. Yelling is a Temporal solution to a permanent situation.
Children will only listen to you when you yell. They will always create a situation for you to yell.
2. Yelling begets more yelling.
As you try to yell to control your classroom, you will have to yell over and over again. The children will also yell and create avenues for you to yell since they've seen it is your Habit.
3. Children emulate parents or teachers who yell.
You may be yelling probably because your parents or teachers may have yelled at you.
You don't want to teach your children bad habits.
4. Yelling may increase your chances of getting hypertension or some related health condition.
Research has shown that most people who yell or shout have high chances of becoming hypertensive.
5. Yelling increases the rate of anger.
Continuous yelling would increase the rate of anger in you.
It may lead you to do what you wished you would not do under normal circumstances.
But, in this 21st Century, yelling and shouting do not get result in the classroom. There are Creative Techniques every Educator can use to prevent shouting or yelling in the classroom.
1. The use of Signals.
Creative Educators use signals to prevent yelling in the classroom. There several creative Signalling Techniques you can use as an educator.
Here are some Simple but Creative Signalling Techniques.
1. Repeating of Words or Sentences.
2. Clapping
3. Shaking the Signal (A bottle containing gravels or sand)
4. Quick Silence
2. Setting Classroom Rules
With the help of the learners, design and set effective Classroom Rules. These Rules should be simple. The Facilitator must rehearse the Rules with Learners every day. The Facilitator must also obey these Rules.
The Rules should be placed where every learner would see it without any difficulty.
3. Teach with Teaching & Learning Resources.
Teaching with Resources is a Creative way of minimizing Disruptive behaviours in the classroom.
We must always use TLRs during our teaching bad learning process. Most of the disruptive behaviours in the classroom is as a results of the inability of the learners to understand or comprehend what is being taught in the classroom.
4. Give learners Activities to Perform
Always provide learners with creative activities to perform. These activities should aim at developing certain desirable competencies such collaboration, communication, etc in learners.
Yelling, shouting or nagging has No Place in the 21st Century Classroom. Stop it before it Stops you.
Use Creative Techniques in dealing with today's Classroom Challenges.
Truthfully, in Creative Environment no one should ever yell, yelling is a verbal act of aggression. Aggression and/or violence is the product of an exhausted mind, and its a dead end in regards to productivity.
Don't ever yell or shout because when you yell as a consequence for a behavior, you are either reinforcing or creating an avenue for your learners or children to continue with their behaviour.
By Mohammed Aminu Mohammed,
(Coach, Trainer, Mentor).
Contact: 233244299706.
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