Me, each other, all at once, you name it. I cannot wait for this rotation of 7th graders to be done with. Most are great kids but.......
It's a constant fight to get through anything. I've moved them around the room, may spread them out over the whole 27 seats? there are 15 of them. Probably 12 of them have issues.
I've considered changing the room up, but that would be a pain for this one class. My room just doesn't lend itself to a circle type thing.
I asked them to give me some ideas today, and the ideas ranged from a canoe paddle to be more fun and buying muzzles.
I do not have $$$ to buy them silly trinkets or candy. Do I have them write sentences? I've taken away time to work on group projects, talked to them individually.
I get one under control and someone else starts in.
When you figure it out, let me know! Actually I try to walk around the class a little bit and use the proximity to the student to get them to quiet down. That helps at times. If you have fun activities for them to work on you can give them the choice of the fun activity or learning about things from a book. Generally they'll pick the lab activity. I think kids are like training horses: there's no one fix-all. You just have to keep mixing things up. What works for one won't work for the other. Good luck!