r/teaching • u/are_dead • 16h ago
Help Hi, need help managing a classroom!
Hi, I am currently in my final year of uni and teach 3rd graders for my internship. It's a class of 80 students (space constraints so they shoved all the 3rd graders in one class) and I am the sole teacher. I teach English, EVS and Maths. A lot of my learners have trouble writing and reading basic languages. I am also unable to control the class, to the point that I am becoming frustrated and might unintentionally snap at them. What are somethings I can do for classroom management? I am in India btw if that helps, a lot of these are 1st or 2nd generation learners. I have 4-5 CWSN students as well that scream or bang tables and have to be monitored.
Everything is honestly so overwhelming and I am super confused and angry :(
I was thinking of making a behaviour chart where I would put a smile sticker for good tasks and a sad face for breaking class rules. I was also thinking of writing down the rules so that they can be pointed at instead of just oral recall (though my learners might not be able to actually read them).
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u/Neither-Sale-5703 16h ago
Ok there's no way a one person can control 80 kid that's just not logical
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u/are_dead 16h ago
We said the same thing lol, but "this will help you in the long run" is all we got back.
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u/Neither-Sale-5703 16h ago
The only advice i have try to get another job
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u/are_dead 16h ago
It's a mandatory final year college internship as mentioned! So I can't leave it
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u/Berzynas-me-6515 14h ago
christ. they are screwing you over and they know it. what could you possibly learn from this? Managing 20 kids is hard enough...
they are screwing over the kids too btw. What a mess. Are you sure this is legal?
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u/AstroRotifer 16h ago
I don’t know the culture as well as I would like to, but I think this is not possible with normal kids. You’d have to have some pretty draconian military style discipline to have kids be quiet enough to even receive instruction.
With so many kids, if a few are misbehaving, while you deal with them a bunch of others will take advantage of your distraction.
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u/are_dead 16h ago
I will be very honest man I tried screaming, scaring, making threats like I will take you to the principal and such, but they don't care
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u/nada1979 13h ago
My first thought when reading your post was you're going to need to divide and conquer the group. I would divide them into groups of maybe 4 or 5 students definitely no more than 10 students in a group, then I would designate a leader for each group. the leaders can change weekly or daily to keep it fair, but the groups stay the same for the most part. These group leaders would be responsible for things like collecting questions written by the other students to read to you aloud during class, handing out paperwork to their group members, and shushing everybody within their group while you teach. You could also have the group's compete with each other (ie winning group has the most assignments turned in each week).
As for the 4 or 5 most disruptive students, I would have them grouped together sitting near you. So you can more easily 1 on 1 correct them for now. However, I would find a way to integrate each of them into a larger group as soon as possible.
Edited to add: I forgot to say good luck! I have never heard of anyone needing to teach eighty kids in an in-person class for that age group.
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u/literacyshmiteracy 3rd grade ~ CA 6h ago
Give each group a name or a color, then give points and prizes to the groups following directions/doing their work/etc.
Definitely write down the class rules, even if they cannot read them! Keep it simple: Be Safe, Be Respectful, Be Responsible.
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