In the video below we see Sammy Davis, Jr. tell the guy with the cigar in no uncertain terms to put it out. He did so at the very moment he became aware of it. Do we do this in class when our kids talk? In the very moment it begins, do we stop it? It’s what teachers must do but many don’t – stop any rudeness before it begins. This remarkable video happened 50 years ago, before the dangers of smoking became public. It’s as if teachers who allow kids to talk may as well allow them to light up a cigarette in their classroom. Isn’t there any research on that? There’s all this intellectual namby-pamby research about ideas that don’t matter if a teacher can’t set limits with kids. That’s what it’s become and many of the adults in education in the U.S. these days are complicit. Sammy’s move exhibits a combination of the classroom management levels (1 and 2) that Tina and I are suggesting these days, because they work. This may be the best classroom management video for foreign language teachers ever made.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbLlCxK0pHY