Thursday, October 4, 2007

How can I productively react when students misbehave or act up?

There are always going to be students who misbehave, I know this because at times I was that student. But I will need to develop proper ways to discipline my students. I remember back in middle school I would be put in the hallway, and I would miss the lesson. Dr. Grace talks about this a lot because when you throw a student out, it is like you are giving up on them. In chapter 12 of MI, it talks about how to discipline students. The best way I saw, and one that I will want to use, is instead of calling them out and embarrassing them, find a way to channel their energy using the MI that they connect with and have them deal with their issue on their own. If a student can work their problem out on their own it will make them feel better as well. I can also see how a teacher could get fed up with a problematic student because it takes away from the other students who want to learn. That is something that I am concerned with. If I am going to put all this time into designing a lesson plan which I think will intrigue my students, and then I can’t get to it all because I have deal with a problem student I am going to be upset. I will want to see how my mentor teacher deals with students who act out because I think it is easy to say how you will deal with it, but I think it will be different in real life.

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