Lauren, I've had this problem several times. What I do is laminate some tickets (like the ones used for carnivals or raffles). I put them on a ring, and give them to the student. We talk about how this is how I am going to help them learn to control their impulse to blurt out. Our goal is to eventually not need the tickets. They start out with 5 tickets for the day. ( you could change that depending on how old the student is, or how long they are in your class.) They have to give me a ticket every time they talk without following our classroom procedure (raise your hand and wait patiently to be called on). If they follow our procedure, then I give them a lost ticket back. They never get more than the original five tickets. I do recognize their ability to follow the procedure, but don't get over excited, after all, they are doing what is expected. At the end of the day if they have a ticket left, then there are no consequences. Once they have no tickets, they write a self reflection telling what happened, and what their plan is for stopping the undesired behavior. If we have no more problems, we tear it up. If they continue, then I make a copy of it and send it home for their parents to sign. If they still continue to blurt out, they write another reflection, I staple both together, then write a referal to the office. Both copies and the referal are sent home, and the student spends some time with the principal. The principal knows about the plan and if a student ends up in the office, she knows they have had many incidents. The next day we start over again, and the student gets five tickets. When they are able to end the day with two or more tickets, we take one away for the next day. The goal is to no longer need tickets. This worked incredibly well with several different types of students.
Joy/NC/4 How children learn is as important as what they learn: process and content go hand in hand. http://www.responsiveclassroom.org --- On Sun, 8/10/08, Lauren Ashley Hewitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: . . . what do you do when you have a student(s) who is blurting out answers to questions, therefore not giving the other students time to think about the question and process the information before deciding on an answer? _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive.
