The teacher in this video has complete control of her classroom. She clearly expects the students to act when asked, and she cues them with verbal directions and nonverbal hand motions. She does not have to repeat herself, nor do any students seem confused of defiant. An excellent example of this is when she directs the students to pick up their hand chimes, play them, and then stop. I have had experience with this age group of students, and understand how difficult it can be for this age of students to not become distracted by an instrument and impulsively play it. However, the students in video case #0079 show restraint and proper behavior when they are instructed to stop playing. Her expectations and routines have created a learning climate where the students are at ease and engaged, display respect for the structure of her classroom, and display appropriate…
Tom’s behavior often disrupts class. Yesterday he threw a dictionary across the room, knocked over his desk, kicked it, and began yelling obscenities at the teacher and the other students in the class (LD resource room). The teacher had to call for help from his ED resource room teacher to calm him down and safely remove him from the classroom.…
Gary was more than proud of the fact that he gave his students a quiz everyday in his Latin class so that they would remember what they had learned the day before. Gary also wanted his students to apply what they were learning to the real world. While interviewing my grandfather he said, “In American Government, I never gave a student an A unless they did at least two ‘A projects’.” These “A projects” were simple things like interviewing a local politician or going to a town meeting. Gary confided that discipline had been the hardest part of being a teacher for him, but he always had the best strategy for dealing with rowdy students. His plan was extremely simple, “if a student would act up in class I would say, ‘that is a great point. Maybe you should stay behind after the bell so that we can discuss it’,” this phrase would make the color drain from even the worst troublemaker’s face. Unlike his co-workers when he first began working, Gary refused to yell at or hit any of his students. In his forty-two years of teaching, the idea of it never crossed his mind. Being a teacher takes a lot of patience, and just as his father always said, “just know you are smarter than the kids, and that you have more experience than…
Most of the time there are a lot of behavioral students that are just plain -o- disrespectful, loud, rude, and disruptive; in which makes it hard to maintain a well-managed classroom. Despite school/classroom rules you post on the wall you will find that some students will break the rules just to get peer attention or to get out of class. Overall, classroom disruptions makes it hard to run a class successfully.…
To build on the example above, there were children working quietly and diligently on their artwork. It was much easier and more enjoyable for me to praise these students for their hard work than to constantly correct the student I was in the coercive cycle with. Teachers may face the same sort of competing contingencies in the classroom. Perhaps there are other bright, well-behaved students with which the teacher would prefer to interact. Perhaps grading papers is more reinforcing than classroom management. Interventions themselves are not always inherently rewarding. It can be aversive to implement corrective feedback, response cost, and time out as part of an intervention. It may be more reinforcing in the short term to do nothing than to engage in the potentially aversive intervention. However, interventions are reinforcing when they improve student behavior. Consultants can help make the reinforcing properties of an intervention more salient by offering praise, supportive statements, and empathy in consultative meetings (Allen & Warzack, 2000). This may make the consultation process more enjoyable for the consultee as well as create an environment where the teacher feels comfortable asking questions to improve treatment integrity. Secondly, the consultant may enlist the support of others who can provide reinforcement for implementing the…
Sam punching the other children is the main behavior that needs to be addressed. The reason this needs to be addressed is because, it is not acceptable to punch our classmates in the stomach. Sam knows the cause and effect of hitting his classmates in the stomach. So we also need to address why he feels the need to punch the children then put himself in timeout. I also need to address if Sam understands what rules are. Am I as a teacher explaining the consequences of bad…
In the event that a student speaks or acts in a manner that offends, disrupts or negatively impacts the learning environment (i.e. defiance, rudeness, refusal to do work) - I reserve the right to act immediately and directly, up to and including the possible immediate removal from class. In such an instance, the student will NOT be allowed to re-enter until I have met with or contacted a parent or guardian.…
Unfortunately, many schools have disruptive students. Kicking them out of the classrooms, school detention or suspension is not the solution. Teachers should try to find new ways to get these disruptive students involved in quality learning. They need to learn how to handle behavior problems that might occur in the classrooms. PBIS (positive behavioral interventions supports) is an approach that is grounded in research regarding behavior in the context of the settings in which it occurs. There is a need of these types of supports in elementary classrooms, in particular Sprague Elementary school, to eliminate behavior problems. Thus, implementation of school-wide positive behavioral interventions and supports (PBIS) in elementary schools is…
Having a disruptive student present in the classroom can hinder the learning environment for other students.” Disruptive student behavior is detrimental to the academic community because it interferes with the learning process for other students, inhibits the ability of instructors to teach most effectively, diverts university energy and resources away from the educational mission, and may indicate a significant level of personal problems or distress on the part of the disrupter.” (Gerald Amada (personal communication, February 1, 1999). Unfortunately these situations can be severe enough that it could be very distracting and definitely takes away from the other students learning experience. In certain situations the disruptive student may need to be removed permanently. When the teacher feels as though the student may need to be removed permanently all parties involved should come together. It should involve the parents, the guidance counselor, the dean and possibly even the principle. The student should be treated fairly and gently as to not cause any damage to the student.…
Michicco entered the ISS classroom in a very disruptive manner. I immediately went over the rules with the student. I asked the student to paraphrase the rules to check for understanding. She signed the rule sheet and had a difficult time following the expectations for the ISS classroom. She had 48 distractions of outburst to seek attention from the students in the classroom. This took place between 9:00- 11:32AM. I use many interventions and role play to help her understand her behavior was deemed unacceptable.…
If teachers aren’t careful, they may be unintentionally reinforcing the negative behavior, causing the behavior to worsen. A great example of this is providing attention for misbehavior. If we continuously provide attention when the student misbehaves and the student is yearning for that, the unwanted behavior is reinforced, causing it to increase. It is easy to see that when we begin to dig a little deeper and see what is truly reinforcing the behavior, teachers will be able to plan and react to situations more appropriately, helping the student behavior to…
This chapter introduces researched papers that have been re-evaluated and analysed for the purpose of this project. The chapter will cover the triggers that lead to violence and aggression on healthcare professionals or peers by dual diagnosis service users, the patients’ and staff perspectives on managing violence and aggression safely and the current best practice in the management of violent and aggressive behaviour (see table 2). The suggestions from various literatures brought across will form part of the evidence based intervention that clinicians can use in minimising episodes of violence and aggression.…
Throughout the study, Shelley did not focus extensively on behavior management. On most days, the students in Shelley’s class were very well behaved and seemed to be familiar with Shelley’s rules regarding classroom behavior. On occasions when Shelley considered student behavior to be inappropriate, she provided corrective feedback in the form of non-verbal gestures or short reprimands. Once the feedback was provided, Shelley continued with instruction and did not dwell on behavior. Examples of corrective feedback statements regarding the behavior of the whole class included, “Let’s get back into control, O.K.?,” “Let’s calm down. I like for you to answer the questions but I don’t like you to comment…
In a 4th grade private school classroom and child showed disruptive behavior when approached with authority of an adult telling him to stop doing something that was in appropriate like calling other student’s stupid and fat. When a teacher would tell him please stop he would continue to say rude things but now geared toward the teacher. It would take several minutes to get him to calm down. The disciplinary effect after his disruptive behavior would be indoor suspension and a phone call home.…
Which is better ― to correct disobedient kids using some physical punishment or to let them go scot-free at school? This is one of the biggest problems our current education is facing; to teach with or without a pointer.…