Teach Kids How to Stay Focused in Your Class!
Date: August 12th, 2025
Being able to focus our attention is a skill. Here’s one way to help kids focus longer!
Regulating Yourself When a Kid Swears at You
Date: February 19th, 2025
Ask Polly Bath: Kids Not Taking Specials Seriously?
Date: November 24th, 2024
Polly answers the question: “I’m a music teacher and I’m having an issue with students who refuse to listen during music excerpts and instead chat – thereby ruining it for the whole class. Separating them hasn’t made a difference. They don’t take the subject seriously and therefore come in with an attitude. What should I do?”
Timers and Self-regulation
Date: November 13th, 2024
Here’s how to help kids self-regulate their behavior using timers during the lecture part of class.
Ask Polly Bath: Improve Behavior?
Date: October 5th, 2024
Polly answers the question: “What’s the most impactful thing I can do to improve behavior in my classroom?”
Ask Polly Bath: Kids Using Inappropriate Humor to get Attention?
Date: July 20th, 2024
Polly answers the question: “Any time my lessons involve vocabulary such as ‘the wind breaks’ or words that rhyme with something crude, my 7th graders start snickering and saying inappropriate things like ‘she said break wind!’ or ‘she said fart!’ This drives me nuts. Any ideas?”
Disregulated Kids Need Intervention
Date: May 29th, 2024
Ask Polly Bath: Are Gadgets Distracting?
Date: March 31st, 2024
Polly answers the question: “I know kids need help paying attention in class but I’m struggling with all of these fidget toys and gadgets. Are they really helping my students pay attention because I worry that they are distracting?”
Ask Polly Bath: Kids Want Choices for Everything
Date: March 23rd, 2024
Polly answers the question: “Right now my students seem to think they should have a choice about everything. At what point should they realize that some things are not up to them?”
Are You Angry?
Date: March 13th, 2024
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