… and they will continue to test you, and push you. Kids do that.

Have you any authority over them? Exercise it. Go to the school director. Get the kids home phone numbers and call the parents.

Kids need to learn that their actions have consequences, and the earlier the better.

Obviously any type of physical punishment is out.. but you might want to consider a super-soaker type water pistol. I had good results with that when I taught an ESL class in Russia.

Good luck

You really have to be FIRM and CONSISTENT. Explain the rules in a simple, first grade way. Have about five of them: raise your hand, stay in your seat, no hitting, things like that. Go over these rules everyday for a couple of weeks, first thing in the morning. Have a discipline chart and the students all begin on the yellow card for example. When a rule is broken they pull a card and that’s a warning, different card. Then the third rule broken is a consequence like no recess, or something that you really can take away from them. The next consequence could be phone call home and the last could be the principle’s office, hopefully it wouldn’t go that far. Remember to praise, praise, praise any good behavior that you see, even though it might be hard and really tiring sometimes! Kids love attention, whether is it positive or negative. The beginning of the school year is exhausting if you’re focusing on your discipline but then it’s so worth it because the rest of your year is better. At the end of the day I would choose the “secret three”. Three kids that remained on the yellow card all day could choose a piece of candy, sticker, something small like that. The kids loved it! I have to say that my students were really under control (people always commented on it, not to pat myself on the back) and I worked in some rough schools. I really think it’s because I was firm, consistent, and praised good behavior like crazy! Good luck!

Well Ya Might As Well Get The Principal To Give You The Go Ahead On Some Old Fashioned “Tail’ Swtching…Cause These Kids Now A Days Are As No Others I Have Ever Seen…All I Can Say Is Grab Up The Meanest One And Make An Example Of Him..And Bingo There Goes The Rest Of The Herd Right In Line….

Well ,I am going to be student teaching in a week are so and spent the summer working with a pre-k class and the only way that I notice is A. Don’t lose your cool B. Always be stern especially those first few days that is very critical C. Establish rules and consequences and let them help you so they can feel like there part of a little community not just a classroom. I found this link with some interesting stuff.I hope that can be of a little bit of help.

Oh, I feel for you. Whether it is in your nature or not, you NEED TO BE FIRM. You are not their to be their friend, you are there to be their teacher. Consistency is key for the younger students. You need to have clear rules and expectations. When they are broken, there needs to be consequences in place, EVERYTIME. It is OK to rewind and start completely over as far as management goes. Younger kids certainly do respond to postive incentives as well: like earning a popcorn party, game time, etc. I had a pretty terrible class of second graders last year and implemented something called the Book of Good Deeds. Each day, i would write down about 3-5 kids who I caught doing something wonderful. At the end of each day, I would read the entries aloud and we would all clap. Pretty soon, all the kids wanted to be in the book, and just started naturally acting better. They wanted the public recognition and positive attention (I swear that book changed them). But, to get back to what I was saying earlier, you need to tell them and model for them exactly how you want them to do everything, such as coming down for group time, transitions, lining up, etc. It may seem to take up a lot of instructional time, and it certainly gets old and tiring, but if you don’t do this, they will not follow. 6 year olds need things clear and simple. Good luck to you! Email me (my full avatar name) if you need additional ideas.

You must greet them at the door and treat them as if they are acting appropriately. You didn’t say how many you have. You might pick a leader and then have them follow you in a way that is how you want them to go to their seats or to the “power circle.” (That place on the quiet rug that is used for the ones who ‘get it’)

You model every action you want done every day for the first 5-10 days. Have a little fun activity and then reinforce the modeling you’ve done. I used to show students how to raise their hand for attention from me, raise their hand to go to the bathroom (two fingers gets a nod from me so that they can go without disrupting my class). You may need to show them how to line up, how to sit in a chair, how to put their name on their paper etc. etc. Harry Wong has an excellent book: The First Days of School, that was my “bible.” Our school district gave this to each new teacher. Get your mentor teacher to walk you through procedures. Its procedures you teach the first days of school, not subjects!!!

The students smell fear! Keep an upper hand. Smile, but let them know you are the boss. Don’t be afraid to send them back outside and ask them to return in the proper way.

You have to be firm and let them know that you are serious. I have been a substitute teacher for 2 years now and I would turn off the lights and tell them that I am waiting for them to get quiet. After order has been established I let them know my expectations and tell them that I will tell their mommies and daddies what they are doing and it will make the parents very sad. they start to listen by then.

your right- you have to be firm. show them who’s boss. they can’t control u. so make sure you have a list of rules for them to follow. make things fun- you don’t want to scare them. show them that you can be fun but you are strict. if one of the kids misbehave, show them you won’t tolerate them. if you say, “i’m gonna let it slip this time but next time…” you are giving them license to misbehave. Discipline!

Good Luck! u can do it!

This is what they get for taking spanking out of schools..

Then they wonder why kids are so bad now

WELL DUH…