{"id":790,"date":"2018-11-21T15:49:11","date_gmt":"2018-11-21T22:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/managementtoolbox\/?p=227"},"modified":"2018-11-21T15:49:11","modified_gmt":"2018-11-21T22:49:11","slug":"silent-signals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/managementtoolbox\/silent-signals\/","title":{"rendered":"Silent Signals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Student Contributor: B. Musser<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"265\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/managementtoolbox\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/204\/2018\/11\/d2ebaa266e46d484b3668e5b0fce7c0d-265x300.png\" class=\"size-medium alignleft wp-image-228\" alt=\"\" \/>Silent signals are a few predetermined hand signals\/sign language symbols that students are able to use to ask permission from the teacher for simple tasks such as going to the bathroom or getting a drink.  This procedure helps to prevent distraction in the classroom and allows for daily tasks to be carried out more smoothly.<\/p>\n<p>This is a procedure that is used in place of having raised hands and prevents questions from being blurted out all day towards the teacher.  Instead of having to pause the lesson over and over, and distracting the whole class, students just use silent and simple symbols to ask to use the bathroom, sharpen a pencil, get a drink, etc., and the teacher responds with a simple head nod of yes or no, or another simple symbol.  These symbols need to be well explained and established right at the beginning of the year and carried out consistently throughout the year, so that there is no confusion and the procedure can be effective.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/managementtoolbox\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/204\/2018\/11\/GettyImages-585861461-5a15c0720c1a820019e447af-300x200.jpg\" class=\"size-medium alignright wp-image-229\" alt=\"\" \/>This tool falls under the preventative phase, because it prevents classroom distraction and disruption.  Most teachers are constantly interrupted during their lessons to answer menial questions, when a simple procedure such as this, can prevent any deviation from the lesson from happening.  This procedure also relates to the supportive phase, because it supports better learning in the classroom, due to there being less distractions.  This procedure falls best under the student-directed\/collaborative theories because it promotes student responsibility and self-control, yet it is a joint effort between the student and the teacher.  This procedure promotes responsibility and self-control, because the students must remember the symbols, how they are to be used, and to not take advantage of them, because they are a tool to be used correctly in order to be effective.<\/p>\n<p>More Information &#8211;<br \/>\nTool Source: Pinterest<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.teacherspayteachers.com\/Product\/Hand-Signal-Classroom-Pack-831431<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Silent signals are a few predetermined hand signals\/sign language symbols that students are able to use to ask permission from the teacher for simple tasks such as going to the bathroom or getting a drink.  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