Quiet please!

For this time, I will talk about a video that I watched on http://www.teachers.tv/

This video is about a rookie teacher who was trying to keep the order and silence on his class of 5th grade. During he is telling to a girl (who might be a teacher, too) the situation of his everyday starting class, they both were watching the video which demonstrate what he was talking about.

Firstly, he started talking about how he tries to make the children to form a straight line before to get into the class to start the lesson time. In the video, which they are watching in the meantime, is seen that it is a complete mess at the moment that he is trying to make the children to line up.

Afterward, the teachers kept showing to this girl in the video how he tries to catch the attention of the children during the lesson time. He explained to her that no matter how hard he tried to maintain the silence, it just did work.

Finally,The woman gave him some advice about how he could be in control of the class, and keep the guys quiet and tidy, during he was lining them up and at the lesson time.

It seems to me, they were not thinking in the main reason of the untidiness of the students. Although, they were trying to find out the solution to this situation, they did not think on the possibly inadequate methodology that he was using to catch the attention of the kids. Maybe, the students feel boredom while they are in his class, because of the method he uses. In other words, the guys may be the problem, but he may be the reason of that apparently simple trouble and not the students.

Cowley, Sue; Hertage, Mark."Caothic start". www.teachers.tv/(2006).Online. 9 May 2009.
http://www.teachers.tv/behaviour