The Unruly Students!!

   Last week I talked about  dealing with difficult parents.  As that might be challenging in itself, that is not our main job.  Either you are a first year teacher or a 30 year veteran, we have all experienced the difficult student.  When I am talking about difficult students, I am not just talking about behaviors, but also the students who:

~sit at their seats and do nothing.
~do not complete any of their homework assignments, and
~do not speak a word to you.

But of course we cannot the forget the student(s) who distrupt the class because of the their behaviors.  In the past two years I have seen students in my own school building do the following behaviors:

~yell
~bite
~kick
~swear
~ be deviant
~physically abuse other students
~bully other students, (a whole other blog all together)
~run from the classroom and even worse run from the school building.

To top that off, most of these behaviors are coming from our 1st graders!

So, how do we as trained professionals deal with these issues.  Most of us might say "go run and hide", but we cannot, because for most of these students they need the caring and compassionate people called, teachers.


Here are some articles/blogs that might be helpful to you for dealing with the unruly student:

Difficult Behaviors in the Classroom

Dealing with Disruptive Student Behavior  - University of Houston

Strategies for Dealing with Troublesome Behaviors in the Classroom -

Rosalind Reed, Ph.D.
Department of Health and Community Services
College of Behaviorial and Social Sciences
California State University, Chico

Here are some books that can get through those tough times:





   









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