Boy heavy class - behaviour management
Hi all,
Does anyone have any support for behaviour management?
I've been told by management that I can't take minutes off their playtime for classroom behaviour, or raise my voice. I have 21 boys andd 10 girls.
The boys are incredibly rowdy, chatty, rude and don't care for adults telling them what to do. My school policy says to have a private chat with them but there's SO many disruptive in my class that if that was what I did, no teaching would get done at all. Parents don't want to be told about classroom behaviour at all.
I'm ECT and feel completely lost on what to do. Is this behaviour normal with a boy heavy class or am I just bad at my job? I got told I looked 'uptight' when teaching on Friday but I honestly feel like there is no support for this behaviour and it's constantly blamed on me having poor behaviour management when I've done observations to see what other teachers do, I follow the school policy where possible (obviously private chats when it's only a few children being disruptive), I like to think I have a good relationship with my class as they do come to me if something is wrong.
Please help 🥺