Managing behaviour of "challenging" pupils
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| well, now the question is how to manage a pupil who is completely off task in a class, disrupting the normal teaching lesson, causing frequent interuptions to teaching and learning. Such a pupil, if thrown outside the classroom , can be a terrible nuisance to the subject teacher. Lots of teachers just throw abusive students outside classrooms but is this a remedy to the solution of classroom management? Most schools today do not have well structured punishments schedules for teachers to follow. New teachers are mostly left on their own when it comes to managing challenging students. Heads of schools do rarely interfere in such situations. Different teachers have differing methods of classroom management.Corporal punishment is strictly forbiden; verbal and sexual harrasment : these two terms are really becoming alarming issues in our school environment. Lots of Challenging students are making a misuse of these issues in order to escape from their dirty intentions to disrupt the normal teaching in classrooms. Our main issue is : HOW TO DEAL in such situations when you are not encouraged to use corporal punishments to set examples to challenging students in order to maintain proper and smooth learning in classes? As a teacher I have to think twice before setting punishment to students today. Such an action may lead to yourself loosing your job or being entangled in police inquiries. |
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| You really shouldnt need to hit someone in order to encourage them to change their behaviour. There are plenty of better ways to effectively discipline students, but you really need the back up of the school administration to make it effective. |
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I think the main thing is to remember that these kids are behaving badly for a reason. It is not s solution to use corporal punishment or any agressive behaviour towards students.
I am always calm and fair in the classroom. I set the boundaries and I allow 3 strikes. I think you need to ensure that there are consequences for bad behaviour. |
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| I might be wrong but I think the first charecteristics of a teacher is to be patient. Again I might be wrong but I think no student can exploit patience. But I am sure it is difficult to be patient. |
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| I agree. Patience is definitely a must if you are a teacher. You also need to like and understand kids and the limits of their experiences and their behaviour. If you really dont like or understand kids then maybe you shoudl be questioning your choice of career as a teacher. Having said that, when they are in a group they change and always tend to 'follow the leader'. Kids can and do play up. But hitting them will not teach them how to be better people. Again, the most important thing for a teacher to have is the support of his/her administration in the backing up of disciplinary actions such as detention and more if the behaviour is completely inappropriate. Co-ordinators and other Heads need to reinforce disciplinary actions so that kids who try to ruin classes cant get away with it. Its a combination of all of that. I remember having some year 9 boys making very sexually inappropriate comments to me in my first year of teaching. They were disciplined by the Director of Students and suspended. Doesnt this kind of thing happen in the UK? |
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