The noise level of this class is unbearable at moments when everyone is out of control. The weird thing is that this is only during period six, not period one. We get unbearable when Mrs. Risser is speaking to everyone or in small groups. If anyone is speaking the whole class replays to that one person and then starts to talk to the people around then. I think this happens because there aren’t any strict rules or consequences of talking when there not suppose too. I think that to prevent this I think you need to wait for everyone to stop talking and then tell us that we need to get our work done. I also think you could be more strict sometimes, but not too strict. In a report done by the Journal of Neuroscience, they said that adults can handle listening to something with noise better than teenagers or younger kids can. In this study, they put kids in one room and adults in another room. They then play a guy reading four short stories, but with people loudly talking in the background. The adults listen better than the kids and understand what is going on in all four stories somewhat, but the kids don’t understand what the guy said almost the whole entire time. If we continue in our classroom with our noise level we will end up not knowing anything that Mrs. Risser is saying unless we quiet down and let people talk. When asked we can be talkative, but not all the time. We will make Mrs. Risser never want to do fun things with us. We need to stay at our respected noise level until we are outside the school or asked to be loud inside the classroom. We did an interview with Mrs. Risser and asked her about what her intake was about the whole situation.
Interviews
We asked four people some questions and this is what they said. We asked if they could concentrate when it’s loud and they said “no”, “no”, “yes”, “sometimes, it depends.” ¾ people said that they couldn’t pay attention when we get really loud. ¼ said it was perfect for them to work in meaning about 3 students like in every 4 like silence when working. So that’s saying for 10 kids that like the noise 20 kids don’t in our class. We asked the question of how often do we go above the noise level. We have exactly 30 kids in our class and having 20 kids that like or work better in complete silence means that we haven’t been getting as much work done.
The Middle Seat 