1. Classroom Management Tips – Attention Getters

2. Whole Group Discussion
What is one thing you do to get your students’ attention?
Preview
With young learner energy, classrooms can get busy and noisy. Getting your students’ attention is the first step to engaging them in learning. What’s one way you get your students’ attention?
Give participants a moment to think. Call on a few participants to share examples.

3. Video
In this segment, listen for several tips for getting students’ attention in fun and consistent ways.
Play the video.

4. Model these attention-getting techniques:
Clapping
Raising your hand and waiting for silence
Call and response: “1-2-3 eyes on ME, 1-2 eyes on YOU”
Call and response: When I say _____, you say _____.
Review 1
Let’s review some of the attention getting strategies you just heard.
Review the list. Model one of the attention getting strategies, (i.e. clapping technique). Then ask one or two volunteers to lead an attention getting activity with the group (i.e. When I say Our, you say World…Our. World. Our. World). If no one volunteers, lead the group in practicing one or two.
Distribute Handout 10.1.
Ask participants to write the examples in the “attention getters” section.

5. Complete the paragraph with the correct words
Complete the paragraph with the correct words. When creating a call and response attention getter, you can use new _______ words to _______ and _______. You can even let _______ decide for themselves the call and response ________ at the beginning of class.
Review 2
Attention getters are not only a fun way to keep your class engaged; they are also an opportunity to practice English. Let’s complete the sentences on the screen.
Call on participants to complete the sentences. Drag the words to the correct blanks.
Answers:
When creating a call and response attention getter, you can use new vocabulary words to call and respond. You can even let students decide for themselves the call and response words at the beginning of class.
vocabulary
students
respond
words
call