Take time to see yourself at work in the school-room. Test out your own
influence as a noise maker by adopting some very quiet methods of doing
your own work; see if the children do not imitate you also in
maintaining better order.
Abandon the haphazard method of curbing whispering. Think the whole
situation over; measure each pupil in respect to the whispering
nuisance; classify the room as a whole in respect to the matter.
Probably you will adopt two or three methods simultaneously for
different types of pupils.
Apply these methods unobtrusively. By working with individuals have the
rumor pass around that you are becoming stern about whispering. This can
be done without provoking enmity.
Use a number of stories on self-control, neighborliness, etc., but do
not connect them with your campaign against whispering. If some story
makes a great hit, allude to its leading character when dealing with
certain individual offenders.