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For this edutip, I'm sharing a classroom management trick that saved me multiple times, especially as a newer teacher.

I would have moments when my classroom started to feel out of control.

Maybe I was giving instructions and too many students were talking over me, or I started my

students on an activity and too many of them were off task. The room would be noisy, not in a good

productive way, but in a way that felt chaotic. As I scrambled to get control back, usually by

redirecting or reprimanding individuals or small groups with little effect, I'd feel my heart

start to race and I'd hear a voice in my head saying, they don't respect you. And before I figured

out this technique, when I reached this point, I would just yell

loud enough to jolt them into attention, followed by a few more angry directives. That would

always get the job done. Order would be restored at least for a little while, but I hated

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