Try an attention getting strategy your CT uses.
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NOW: For this task, I watched my CT line up her students when it was time to leave the classroom. She has them line up in ABC order based on their last name. I noticed that the students rely on the person in front of them and behind them to know where their spot is. When getting the students ready to line up she explains to them where we are going and then she calls them either by gender, what color shirt they are wearing or by table color. The students know to line up quietly but I have noticed several times that she has to reminded them how to line up and that they should be at a “level zero” when lining up. “Level zero” means that the students should not be talking at all when lined up or in the halls. In order to make sure the students are quiet walking in the halls, my CT picks a “secret student” before we leave the classroom. This means that she choices a student, but doesn’t tell the students who she chose. If the student walks correctly in the halls, then when we get back to the classroom, she allows the student to move his/her clip up. This is an example of reward/coercive authority. According to Levin and Nolan, it is "Based on behavioral notions of learning, foster teacher control over student behavior, and are governed by the same principles of application." When it was my turn to line the class up, I forgot to call them by small groups. I simply asked them to line up as a class. This quickly became chaos because some students were running to their spots and others were shoving their classmates to get into the right spot. Since they could not line up properly, I asked the class to sit back down. Before I allowed them to line back up, I quickly explained my expectations which are walking feet, “level zero” voices and they should be in line order. Next, I called them to line up one by one according to table colors. This time it was much better. The students quietly got out of their seats and lined up in the right spot. Then I chose a secret student and we left the classroom.
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