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Date Posted: 10:46:36 10/05/02 Sat
Author: yolanda renard
Subject: Re: First year teaching.
In reply to: Bertha 's message, "First year teaching." on 12:19:34 10/01/02 Tue

>I just need some advice:
>How do you respond to students who disrupt your class
>or challenge your authority? First, I feel it is important to know the background information of the child. Is the child going to out of school counseling, taking meds, unstable family values at home, been in an home for deliquients, or simply been a problem his/her whole school career in other classrooms. A disruption in class is an attention seeking interruption. The child has low self esteem which hasn't been developed. Often the child who disrupts is an unpopular child with low scores. This child who often interrupts has a high need to be liked, by you and his/her peers. Second, develop the idea of proactive rather that reactive. Focus on something that the kid does positive and disregard the negative. Ex. The student on Tue with the sci. activity says it was boring and his teammate says it was because you didn't partcipate - ignore it. On Wed. the child says agian it was boring, then identifies that it was probably because he didn't particapate, then follows up with and that is the last thing I'm going to say so now talk to my lawyer. Proactive response would be something like I'm glad you were courteous enough to listen to your teammate yesterday, then turn to the teammate and say something like thanks for working well with the name of the disruptive kid. Third, keep in mind, with a disruptive kid this has been going on probably for years and it will take 6 - 12 weeks to get through to the kid. Proactive rather than reactive. **Get a full length mirror and often have your kids look into and tell them they are looking at the most important person in thier life.
>How do you respond to a student who is not being
>successful in your classroom? I'm trying to work this out myself. smile.
>Thank you.

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