Unruly class

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How do you manage the end of the lesson. 3-4 minutes before the end the pupils start packing up and putting coats on, I've told them again and again about the end of lesson routine but I'm ignored and they hang around the door, messing around with others it's a joke.

I give them less time to pack up. If you give them 5 mins to pack up and they are milling around for 3 mins, that means they only need 2 mins of pack up time. They seem to do it better when on a time constraint

Stand by the door so they can't escape.
Name loudly 5 nice, well -behaved students to leave on time.
Let the others quickly quieten and stand nicely when they realise they're wasting their own time.
Let the rest go row/table.
Stay by the door but don't block anyone from leaving.

Make it clear from the start that you expect stood behind chairs, silently. Deliberately pack up 10 mins early and get them where you want, use behaviour policy if needed. Next lesson, remind and shorted to 7 mins, then the following lesson the usual 3-4.
Stand by the door. Take a MWB for behaviour if needed depending on school policy. I tend to have door closed until we're silent and stood behind chairs.

Contact home for the worst 5 offenders if needs be.

You decide when it’s time to pack up. Only give them 1-2 minutes, so that there is no time for milling around and misbehaving.
Make them unpack and take their coats back off. Use the school’s behaviour policy.
Dismiss row by row, best behaved first.
Ask for back up from another teacher, head of department or SLT.

The best secondary school teacher I observed made the classroom her own.Class lined up outside, didn’t go in till settled. She had them standing behind pre set seats, they all said good afternoon then she told them to sit and get out books.Same at end of lesson, 5 minutes to pack up, get coats on and stand behind chairs. All said good afternoon Ma’am, , then dismissed group by group. old fashioned but it worked.