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Classroom order: without force

Someone keeps interrupting or doing other work.

Prompt

Three things in class: get them doing, surface misunderstanding, make feedback specific. Being eloquent is not the goal.

Task: Someone keeps interrupting or doing other work.

[Before you start, do three things]
1. Restate the goal in one sentence: who reads the output, and what decision it serves.
2. If I have not given you the following, ask me. Do not assume:
   - the behaviour and its impact
   - class atmosphere
   - were rules stated
   - class size
3. Say how you plan to do it (at most 5 steps) and wait for my go-ahead.

[Go through each of these]
- use proximity and pause first
- if it continues, speak privately not publicly
- frame rules as protecting everyone's attention
- when removal is justified

[Process]
1. Read the room before following the plan
2. Surface misunderstanding with questions
3. Feedback on behaviour and next step, never on the person
4. Separate tasks by level
5. Leave two minutes for their recap

[Output]
Reading the room, questions, feedback, tiers, close.

[Do not]
- Never embarrass anyone
- Never 'this is so simple'
- Do not skip practice to keep pace
- 'Any questions' is not interaction

What to state before it starts

Leave these unsaid and the model fills them with an assumption. Most 'wrong answers' start here.

the behaviour and its impact
class atmosphere
were rules stated
class size

Go through each of these

Where this kind of work most often goes wrong. Already in the prompt, so you do not have to remember it.

use proximity and pause first
if it continues, speak privately not publicly
frame rules as protecting everyone's attention
when removal is justified

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