Something I’ve found to have worked well in the past is phone breaks. It helps regulate phone usage and makes students far more likely to pay attention, myself included. The teachers that had the most success gave us phone breaks. Regulation and breaks > punishments.

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 year ago

This does seem like a pretty good idea.

[–] WhyIDie@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's actually a pretty elegant solution. A teacher being against something that motivates the kids is a losing battle to begin with. Extending that olive branch stops that bridge from being burned, and there's been all those studies that show prudent use of breaks increase productivity, including outside of that environment

[–] SexMachineStalin@hexbear.net -1 points 1 year ago

Something like 15 minutes break between 45 minutes of each lecture/period would be probably the most logical solution (which many countries implement) so there is at least some chill time instead of just having to hurry class to class. What if you need to 9/11 the school toilet, grab the heavy-arse books from the locker, make death threats to NAFOs on Twitter, or get some xp in Runescape? Maybe kids will be less likely to goof off in class?