Have you ever come into your class having a good day when suddenly the words, "Everybody close your mouths and pay attention!!" violently beat against your eardrum?

In their defense, teachers all make the same claims that they are merely trying to grab the attention of the class and being loud can do that.

At some point, you were probably that person in the front of the class slouched over on your desk with a throbbing headache because of your teacher's overbearing, booming voice. Though the class may quiet down for a minute or two, being obnoxious definitely is not the best way to get students to listen in class.

If teachers know how to speak to a class effectively, they know what tone of voice to use. Of course, if they are not loud enough, they will eventually put the class to sleep. Speaking too loudly does the opposite, but in a negative manner.

Have you ever spoken to a person who was loud for no reason? It goes from listening to them speak to hearing them talk loudly. The same thing happens in the classroom. When teachers talk too loudly, you begin to lose focus on what they are saying, and you begin to concentrate on the fact that they are just too loud.

At this point, everything they say becomes mindless chatter and the class is back to the conversations that drove the teacher into their boisterous rampage in the first place.

The sound and tone of teachers' and students' voices can have total control over the mood of the classroom. You have probably never seen quiet spectators at a fight.

Classrooms are no different. If you see a wild classroom, you don't need to hear it to know it's loud. These barbaric actions don't come before noise. Noise is ultimately the beginning of hyperactivity in a classroom.

Before people get into altercations, they normally get into an argument first. This is all connected because when sound in a certain environment is neutral, so are the people.

If the teacher is speaking too loudly in the classroom, the student's moods change. If you get near a person and yell in their ear, they most certainly won't politely ask you to step back. Loud sounds make many people angry, and nothing changes in the thresholds of a classroom.

So if you are a teacher who never seems to get results from your students, you are probably the loud, obnoxious teacher who forces all of your students to migrate toward the back of the class to escape the wrath of your overpowering voice.

Students respond better when you speak reasonably and are able to keep their attention through your tone of voice. If your students don't like you, maybe you should just bring it down a notch.