After a long day of tests and quizzes, you walk into your last period with an aggravated yelling teacher who insists they’re just projecting for everyone to hear them.
Shouting is a poor way to communicate, according to Medium. Children who often get yelled at become more aggressive leading to poor behavior. However, a lot of teachers say they aren’t yelling, they’re just projecting their voices to get everyone’s attention and to talk over the student’s conversations.
English teacher Nathan McGarvey thinks it’s essential for teachers to be cognizant now and think before they react in the classroom.
“The negative yelling can be prevented most times through classroom management and moderation,” McGarvey said. “The necessary yelling will always be necessary at times.”
Yelling isn’t always a bad thing in the classroom. It can be essential for emergencies. If there’s a drill, accident, or someone needs help, yelling would be more needed for the situation.
“Yelling is reserved for when you need to get people’s attention,” McGarvey said. “Yelling isn’t necessarily a negative thing, though. It could be a negative thing as far as behavior. More often, though, I find myself yelling in situations where students need to focus, such as during an emergency drill. Talking loudly or projecting just happens naturally with some people.”
Sophomore Riley Frakes has a different opinion from a student’s view of this. Seeing yelling as a negative aspect of the classroom.
“The difference between a teacher talking loud versus yelling is their tone of voice,” Frakes said. “If a teacher is talking loudly, it may be to get attention or get on students. Yelling can show anger which is not the best in the classroom.”
Classroom management also plays a part in the classroom. A teacher needing to yell or project their voice will always stem from the students present in the room. Continually yelling or raising the voice in the classroom will desensitize the students to it and make it useless to use as a way to try and control the classroom, according to Presto Plans.
There is a difference between them but that doesn’t mean that either is a bad thing. They’re both needed for specific times and situations that can be prevented otherwise. It’s also up to the students to be the ones to control this. In the end, the difference is the intentions behind the tone of voice and what has caused that intention.
“To prevent yelling in the classroom, I believe students and teachers should be more respectful, and instead of yelling to get your point across, maybe try a different way,” Frakes said.
