How to make the students silent in the class?

Do you mean that they remain quiet as you are discussing lessons in front? If that is so, well you can directly instruct them to keep quiet while you are presenting the lessons. I think these people are more than old enough to understand that simple line. If they don't want to, then you can start a test regarding the subject you are discussing which if they fail would slowly affect their grades. This will teach them to listen attentively to the discussion unless they want to fail in that subject thereby wasting their time and their money.

I assumed you are a registered or license engineer already, which means you do have practical experience already. Now, if you are not an engineer and is teaching minor general education subjects in the college of engineering, then it will be a chanllenging task for you because it it in the engineering college that all forms of jokes, humors, and sometimes manly issues you will encounter everyday. However, if you an engineer and teaching an engineering subject, my piece of advice to you is to choose a subject that you have a hands-on practical experience so you can share your knowledge to the students. The students are not damn, they will know if you have the right stuff on the job. If you don't have the experience and the license as an engineer, then be an honorable man and go straight to your dean and resign and get your experience and license first for you have no reason for handling an engineering subject at all. You will just be talking what you read on the book and no knowledge transfer at all, purely a waste of time and a pitty to the students and the one paying for the tuition. If you have all the ingredients I have mentioned above as an engineer, you will have a class that is silent and you get all the attention the moment you step into the classroom. Since engineering deals with numbers, you assign a number to all you students in that section and memorize the corresponding number assigned to that student, so you will have a good attnedance check. You let them start to say there number from say 1 to 40, any missing number means absent. This method is quick and simple and don't eat much of your time. You bring your chalk and eraser only and demand each student to bring there text book in the class, be sure you memorize each page of the text book and keep solving sample problems evary seesion you have and give short quiz (10 questions)evrey meeting. You will become the best professor in the college and students will love you and will remember you always. That is what we called "BRANDING" your name. Congratulations on your new job "Professor Sanjay" and good luck. Remember always, the right ingredients makes a class SILENT. This I say to you because "ENGINEERS KNOW THE FORMULA FOR SUCCESS"

I think the key is to make the students be interested in your lessons. As long as they focus on your lessons, then they will hardly have spare time to speak or chat. So you have to make your classes much more interesting and try to ask more questions to your students. Make the classroom much more active. I love China

Hi sanjay,I am a teacher and have been teaching on and off since many years.In my personal opinion, there are 2 most important things to bear in mind to gain the confidence and respect of your students.First of all, we teachers should be hard working and good at our job - see that we look for novel ideas to make a lesson interesting and also study the mood of the class . The second point is to be understanding and develop a rapport with the students, and this automatically makes them also treat you the same way..all the best , enjoy your weekend and happy teaching

Hey sanjay91422, If you think about it, when students don't talk it makes you frusturated because how do you know if they're dreaming or paying attention? When students talk, they actually have more of a chance catching what your saying. Why don't you take turns with your students on a daily basics....let them talk and then you talk, but while you are talking include real teen life situations in your discussion. (or whatever age group you are teaching)It would make it fun for the students, while making you feel more confident in your teaching abilities!

Here in the UK, primary and secondary education have been changed into a jungle (secondary education was always a challenge, discipline-wise) by the bleeding hearts brigade and their namby pamby rules, but we expect better behaviour from students at the tertiary education level. My brother has told me on several occasions about how good a teacher he thought his old physics schoolmaster was, because he made mistakes on the blackboard and the pupils were kept alert correcting them and learned quite a bit of physics as a result (I had the better qualified head of department). You could try the occasional deliberate mistake, and then ask the class "How come you didn't spot this? Why do you bother to turn up if you don't pay attention?"

hi, when i was in my practice teaching,the things i did when my students were noisy in the classroom was went out to the classroom and left them for how many minutes,and when i was entering to the classroom they were all silent because they felt that i was angry not talking and just seat down to my table.

to get students to listen in class, they should be able to attract their attention. have to show them what makes the train. should take their fear as they say. I wish you success. nice day!

Sir Sanjay, nothing beats a well prepared teacher with good sense of humor in front of his students so they wont get bored and surely their interest would be focused on everything that the teacher will be sharing or imparting at them.

My sister is a college professor and we've talked about this before. She said she would usually bang the board. If that doesn't work, she would stop talking and give them a look that would mean "y'all better watch out" until everyone would settle down. I don't know how she does that look though. LOL

may be kept the student in busy to teach them about subject they will silent, otherwise the will not silent.