I have one hell of a teaching situation, both 7 yo and an 13 yo in one class. The 7 yo is the type to write fairly fast, get bored and talk during explanations, but also, bcs he's young and can barely write ( all caps), whenever i ask him to do something more complicated to keep him quiet, he doesn't know how to do it, so he talks.
I can't even ignore him and explain things bcs he's LOUD.
At a diff class where i have this type of situation, i separate the younger and older kids, bcs the younger ones take longer to copy from the blackboard, while i work on grammar and sentance structure w the older ones.
But i can't do this here. Because he's fast. And bores easily.
I yelled at him once out of sheer rage and he melted into the floor, and i don't want to do that again bcs I'm twice his size and that's shitty ( i also don't want to lose my temper in general, i never respected teachers who blew off a gasket easily)
So like.... what can i do to keep him engaged? He's actually writing when given a task, this is not a " he's a mean kid who likes to bother the class" situation, but i cannot teach the others if half the time is trying to make myself jeard over this fire truck siren of a kid