What to do when your music class won’t listen
When a music class won’t listen or continually doesn’t pay attention when you are speaking it is time that you identified your classroom management strategies and started to really manage yourself. Once you manage yourself and your own state, you can then hope to influence others. If you’re under control and you speak quietly and efficiently you’ll have their attention. The problem for music teachers is that there are so many distractions. when you actually have their attention what will happen is that someone will ask a question, or you’ll have to do something like tune a guitar, fix a broken string or find a part and before you know it you’ll have bedlam again. You may find it helpful to also use some Music Games for the Classroom to reward positive behavior at the end of the class.
