1. Allowing time for group work time or group discussion during a lesson gives students a break from the lesson. This group work time also gives students who are afraid to ask for help from the teacher a chance to ask one another for help. This time also helps decrease the amount of misbehavior or side conversations that may occur while the teacher is trying to teach. (Villa & Thousand)
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2. Eye contact is a measure that I will take in my class. When a student starts misbehaving while the lesson or class is going on, making eye contact with them will let them know that their behavior is not appropriate and it should stop. Eye contact is a more private strategy and you do not embarrass the student in front of the whole class. When it is a group of people misbehaving, walking towards them and just making my presence can also stop the misbehavior. (Curwin & Mendler)
3. Once I get to know my students I will have a better idea of which students will be more inclined to misbehave during class. With that in mind, another strategy I will use in my classroom is NOTICING THE GOOD. Because these students are probably used to being only acknowledge when they do something bad, making a comment or reward when they do something good, no matter how little it may be, can help decrease the misbehavior incidents. (Albert) |
4. When the above strategies aren’t working and a student is constantly having bad days, without having the whole class find out, I will ask the student to stay after class and will have a private discussion with them. Calling them out in front of the whole class can make the student feel like you are against them. If something is going on in the student’s live, since students are also people, then having that one on one conversation will let the student know I care about them and want to help them do better.
5. The most important strategy is making sure that you start each day as a brand new day. Starting the day like nothing happened before allows for students to not be punished for maybe having a bad day the previous day. If students see that as a teacher I am forgiven and not holding grudges against them for their previous misbehavior, I am given them the opportunity to behave well because every student is capable of doing that.
Sources
Albert, Linda. (1996). Cooperative Discipline. Philadelphia, PA: American Guidance Service.
Curwin, Richard & Mendler, Allen. (1999). Discipline with Dignity, Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.
Villa, R.A. Thousand, J.S. & Nevin, A.I. (2010). Chapter 9: Students as Collaborators in Responsibility, Collaborating with Students in Instruction and Decision Making, Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press, p. 171-188.
Albert, Linda. (1996). Cooperative Discipline. Philadelphia, PA: American Guidance Service.
Curwin, Richard & Mendler, Allen. (1999). Discipline with Dignity, Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.
Villa, R.A. Thousand, J.S. & Nevin, A.I. (2010). Chapter 9: Students as Collaborators in Responsibility, Collaborating with Students in Instruction and Decision Making, Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press, p. 171-188.