Save Your Voice and Your Sanity: 3 Ways to Effectively Get Students’ Attention

The class mumbles with whispering for a few moments. It grows to a murmur and before you know it, they are nearly shouting to the people next to them.

How do you get their attention? How do you snap them out of discussion mode and back to listening mode without raising your voice?

I’ve used a lot of different tactics over the years. Some work better than others. I will tell you that the thing that works the least is shouting.

Is this the way you get your students’ attention?

Raising your voic...