It is common that students do talk during instructional process. This sometimes disrupt the teaching process and make the teacher deviate from the thought process that occurs during instruction.
It seems interesting if we could find some good strategies and techniques for minimizing students' talking without annoying the students.
Dear Fayyaz Ahmad Faize,
Your question concerns most teachers. There are plenty of ideas on how to deal with it.
It all comes to effective school and classroom management. Identifying the cause, seeking sollutions, implementing and evaluating.
Is it that they are tired and cannot concentrate?
Can we engage them in activities that will help them concentrate (I find online activities, role-play and game-alike projects helpful in these cases)
Can we motivate learners to talk about the class and benefit from their tendency to talk?
etc
There are plenty of ways to deal with it depending on the classroom and the school context
PS: I like your quote 'minimizing students' talking without annoying the students'. We cannot expect students not to talk at all and we should not annoy them. Indeed you have a point in that..
It's better to engage the students throughout the class
If the course is cover give some assignments and activity. Also deal intelligent students desperately giving more work will help .
Why not add discussion questions into the presentation? Students become more involved in their own learning. Student centred learning helps both the students and the teacher to focus on the topic.....
I may be of different opinion but its my technique first Teacher's should raised the interest of that topic with particular examples which is directly related to their life then they will automatically stop taking and try to listen and understand without taking.
On many occasions I have noticed that the conversations that the students establish are related to the topics that we are dealing with in classes, which shows the interest that they have in the educational process that takes place. Without a doubt, other times they are conversations that have nothing to do with teaching. Many times this situation is due to the fact that they connect to their electronic devices during class. Here one must look for strategies so that the students can get in tune with what we are teaching. It is a real challenge for students to connect with us, through the "pedagogical wi fi" that we generate.
Students talking to each other OR browsing their mobile devices, these are chief concerns and, from talking with colleagues, can be especially demotivating for new teachers and faculty. I try to focus on gett8ng the lesson structured in a way that engages, or becomes an active learning opportunit. I try not to spend more than 10 mins in front of any slides, and always try to engage the class in particular discussions with me, or with their peers. I’m reading books about humour and teaching, and I think the other message is to try to find a means of finding a personal connection, to create a real community of learning that also includes you in the mix. Overall, whatever techniques we use in our teach8ng, be it more group activity, application of interactive technology, it’s important to make a note of the impact... collect that data systematically and methodically and share notes and insights with your colleagues.
If students do not know how to behave in the class environment, it is a big problem. First of all, we have to teach our students how to behave in class otherwise all of our teaching activities going to be waste.
Every place has some rules even in coffeehouse or cinema but no rules in class :). I believe if there is no discipline in class we can not talk about teaching.
I think we should try to maximize STT, not to minimize their talking time. In a learning , if learner are talking, this means they are involved in the lesson. We should create an atmosphere in which they express themselves sincerely and properly. This help them engage in the lesson , ı believe...
Are the learners always talking about their lesson? So if we don't want to minimize their talking time then we have to build an ambience of proper interaction relating to lesson.
In the new era of social media , I allow my college students to chat silently without disturbing the others in the class .
After all, they are all adults and responsible for their learning and success
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