Controlling their behaviours

So this is a good video about how to react to students that are compulsive talkers:

http://www.teach-nology.com/ideas/behavior/talkers.html

Having talkers in class will be one of the biggest challenges I will face as this will lower my confidence and credibility as a good teacher. I've read soem of the current fellows are facing this problem and are getting quite frustrated. Hopefully, I can manage this problem well in class and able to avoid this.

Right now I'm thinking of ideas that could make the class fun and at the same time, reinforce good behavior.
Hurm..

Maybe I could start the class with everyone having 10 stars.
and for every excellent student for the end of the day, they will receive a star
and for every not-so-good student, they will have to surrender a star

and I could make a list of what will be the reward/penalty according how many star they have.
something like this :

0 star - a visit to parents house
3 stars -
5 stars -
13 stars -
15 stars - allowed to choose a superhero name and being called that for a day (an idea for a current fellow from TFM blog)

Maybe this is too elementary. Im not so sure. I will not know until I get to know my students. We will see :)



But on top of personal achievements, i should make and achievement for the class as a whole so that they will keep remind each other to be good! This will be awesome! Then, i can have some students on my side by helping me to reach the ultimate goal of having a conducive class! Awesome! What should i do?


Homework game

Randomly choose a student, and then this student then chooses who answers each question throughout the review. He/She can not choose the same person twice throughout the review. Which usually means, that each student has to answer one question. As a class they are allowed to get three wrong. If they get four wrong (as a class), they don't get the prize. Prize could be 5 points for homework.

I wish my teachers were a bit cooler rather than one had thrown my book across the class because I did not do my homework.. From that she made me hates school so much. Sigh..

For the love of my kids, sincerely,
Cikgu Azlina