Essential types of interventions
1. Embedded interventions
• switching the task having students take a deep breath
• switching your tone of voice creating new movement in room drawing attention away from something changing the music
• stepping out of the room
• stretching or playing Simon Says
• engaging in partner affirmations
• switching places in the room
You can send a disruptive student on an errand to another part of the school (make prior arrangements for this, if necessary). The student can carry a book or another heavy object to keep his or her hands full and attention focused. Give the student a special job that allows him or her to keep busy and avoid distracting others.
2. Redirection strategies
In dealing with this level of infraction, the group will probably realize that you're doing something to quiet them down, but no one feels singled out. Continue the class as usual. The following strategies get the job done without being negative
Incorporate three or four students' names in a sentence to personalize the learning. Drop a half-dozen names, and to keep students from figuring out what you're doing, only use half of the names of the students who are misbehaving.
o Use variety of shhh, for example, "You ssssshhhould all be listening right now
o If this will be effective with a particular disruptive student, give a gentle touch on the shoulder.
o Proximity (standing near a student) can work for some students as long as it's used in a relationship maintaining way, not with power-assertive body language-that can be a "turn-off" to students.
o Ask team or group leaders for help.
o Use class team charts to refer to the scoring and how students are hurting their scores admonish the object of distraction instead of the student.
o Tell or read a story, and fluctuate the volume of your voice to maintain student attention. Make eye contact with students as you tell the story.
o Use a quote to release frustration or edginess.
o Use a spatial marker to non verbally tell a disruptive student to knock t off. This is the "hot spot'' approach. You go to a particular corner of the room (a change from your normal position), and this will communicate to students that you mean business. Be firm and to the point. Maintain eye contact, and use the same gestures and key phrase each time. But make sure not to overuse this approach, or it will lose its effectiveness,