Classroom Management for 3/18

• What went especially well? I tried the voice turning down and watched my volume.  I know there was times that I still had my pool voice, but become aware of the fact and turned my volume down.  Tomorrow, I hope to utilize this awareness to my full advantage and keep talking softly so they can hear me.  
• What successes can be celebrated? During instruction time I held my standards with Zeth and a few others about when I say go then instructions.  Those that were not following the rules during vocab or getting the computer, had to wait till the end.  I used positive compliments on their behavior and saw some improvement in some of those kids who were complimented on their being ready.  Later, some of the students craved those compliments as well.  For instance in Social studies, I saw Andrew and Matthew ready for the movie with out having to remind them to quiet down.  Today, when I waited patiently, I also saw how kids waited patiently instead of yelling GUYS SETTLE DOWN.  This seemed to put me in control rather than the students.  
• What was difficult? Math was difficult.  I was trying to engage in conversations with everyone about their cylinders and the misbehavior and getting out of the seat.  I did not nip this in the butt fast enough.  ACT coming in late and both our students getting settled in as well as Mr. Huck's students asking me what they missed while I was giving instruction.  I felt this was not addressed well.  I wish that I had addressed this concern by saying  Let me finish my instruction, sit down and I will be with you in a moment.  Or even asked them in front of their peers what they were doing?  What I was doing?  Was this the best time to be asking this?  or something like this.  They may have felt the pressure of their pressure of their peers and realized it is not polite to be doing this.
• Which students are causing the most problems or needing the most redirection?  How can we support them?  This was addressed with the new seating chart.  Less redirecting occured today than other days.  Zeth is my big one, Tyler getting the eyes right away, and Hallee, Rylee, and Alexa to get focused on their work the whole time. 
• Do you see a change in your instructional time? I did notice that the time getting them back on task was slightly shorter, as well as less times trying to get Ts to redirect them.
• Do you see a change in student work ethic, work completion and/or responsibility? Not yet today.
• Are there aspects of classroom management that you'd like me to model for you again? 
• What more can I do to support you with classroom management?  How do you fill the voids of going between technology or if their is something you are looking for or reaching for you material.  That small little gap where there is a break of me talking for one second?  I feel the students always try to fill any break with chatter.