• Positive discipline:

  • Ensuring activities well-planned (interactive actitives like Kahoot, changing pace of classroom activities, include more dialogues)

  • Using incentives by giving sweets for listening in class and getting Kahoot quizzes correct

  • Setting limits (if you sleep in class, you have to stand, confiscate items that they are using under the table)

  • Empathise with them (say it's the last lesson of the day, I understand your p a i n, please bear with me)

1. With-it ness vs Overlapping: Only realised 2 students sleeping 20 minutes into the lesson (seems like she only takes note of certain students, but does not put sleeping students in the priority)

2. Boredom: Many students exhibiting signs of boredom like doodling, dozing off, zoning away

Proactive intervention skills:

• Lesson plan should involve activities that are interactive, requires group discussions or movement around the class to break the monotony (+she already knows it is late Friday afternoon class)

• If everyone is visibly distracted, can do an activity e.g. stand up and stretch

• Non-verbal cues: Mrs Ong can make use of a certain routine to attract attention, e.g. raising her hands, or if last resort, to use e.g. a bell. Can consider suddenly pausing to let students take notice.

• Addressing class with calm and firm voice e.g. "I can see that not everyone is on the task. Let's make sure that we are all focused, so that we can finish on time and cover the key points."

• Reinforce positive behaviour who are on-task to encourage others

1) Poor lesson planning. Never condition it is the last two period.

2) Ignorance of misbehavior leading to a ripple effect of misbehavior.

3) No establishment and reinforcement of classroom routines and expectations.

Proactive intervention skills

1) Removing distracting objects from students (Lai Peng was looking at something under her desk)

2) Reinforcement of rules and routines once you catch a misbehavior.

3) Increase learner engagement by switching activity like games, videos etc (Sharon staring blindly at slides).

Examples

1) Stand up to stretch.

2) Crack a joke.

3) Do a dance if caught sleeping.

• tired students, end of the week class

• inattentive

• boredom

Intervention +rationale :

• less frontal teaching, more group discussion

  • change the pace of lesson, gives the students a change in pace, hence getting their energy levels back up and engaged

• active participation using Classpoint

  • getting the students to be actively participating in class rather than just listening to her lecturing at the front of the class since it is the last class of the week

• use more than just images, add videos and other sources of aids (gameplay, simulation, animation, etc)

  • more dynamic visual aids and interactions for the students, less static

• sudden changes in tone and volume when teaching

  • get their attention through the element of surprise

• change of classroom environment by manipulating it to set the tone

  • e.g. since she is teaching on River Civilisation, maybe can use a background projected on the screen to simulate the environment so students are humoured and will be engaged

• getting them to stretch and do some static exercise for 2 minutes as a class to get everyone's heart rates back up and moving for a while

1. Did not state her classroom expectations

2. Did not stop any bad behaviours/Turned a blind eye

3. Did not take any interventions to capture their attention

Proactive intervention skills:

1. Establishing rules and routines:

   She should set expectations at the start of her lesson and enforce them.

   e.g She can make those who were sleeping stand up or go to the toilet to wash their face

2. Removing distracting objects from students:

   To get back the student's attention

   e.g She should take away Lai Peng's distractor under the table

3. Changing the pace of classroom activities:

   It could be the content taught or task given was too easy/difficult that's why students are dozing off/not paying attention

   e.g Understand student's profile and introduce some healthy competition like kahoot quizzes