What are the disciplinary problems encountered in the classroom? ?

Question

What are the disciplinary problems encountered in the classroom? ?

Answer 1

up your but with a cocanut.

Answer 2

It depends on student age and temperment. It also varies by country and district - if, for example, you are in a private school where disobedience can be met with expulsion, children will often behave better than in public schools.

Some students like to talk. A lot. With their friends, or with the teacher, or they know a lot about the subject already and they keep interrupting ... It can be difficult to deal with these kids, because some of them don't respect the teacher at all. Others do respect the teacher, but are so excited about the subject that they don't want to be quiet. Others just don't have an "inside" voice, so they're either whispering or yelling. This can happen even in high school - I know one guy, great kid, who speaks at double volume all the time without meaning to.

Then you have the quiet ones. They might be bored, or they might be way ahead of the class; either way it's hard to get a response from them. Sometimes they won't answer even when called on, or give a very short or very quiet answer that you can't really hear. Sometimes they do something like drawing at their desks which isn't disruptive (so the teacher doesn't want to call them out on it) but which also means they aren't paying attention.

Then you have the young kids. Here's a hint: if your son was diagnosed with ADD before the age of twelve, he probably doesn't have it! He's just a bored, spunky kid - and boys are more likely than girls to get bored with class and want to move around, talk, play, ask questions, do something completely different....  Basically, young kids often haven't developed the self-control to just sit down even when they feel restless or bored stiff. This has gotten worse recently, as many schools cut recess time or establish rules like "no running on the playground." (I am in fact serious; some schools around the San Francisco areas forbid running during recess.)

Then you have swearing / mean comments. Little pitchers have big ears, as they say, and grade school and middle school students love to test out "bad words" to see how other kids or adults will react. Even in high school, a few kids have all the social finesse of wrecking balls, and can say terribly cruel things without meaning to - or even deliberately, because they revel in being "weird" or "rebellious" or "gangsta" or whatever.

Then you have the actively destructive ones. A few students will pick fights, swear at the teacher, graffiti all over everything, refuse to do work, break things deliberately, ride bicycles in the classroom. It gets worse if they have decided that they are going to drop out, or if they are trying to be as "gangsta" or "badass" as possible. Some of them get into fights before or after school. Usually, kids like these don't study much or at all and get terrible grades. Some teachers "pass" them just to get them out of their classroom.

Then you have a few kids who have given up. They are so bored or so behind (both can happen, though usually not at the same time) that they no longer give a care what you do. They might put their heads down or doodle the entire time. They might read books or listen to music. They will often not disrupt the class deliberately, but they aren't interested in anything you have to say. (The smart ones figure out that you can take certain exams to pass out of classes or even out of high school entirely, at least in California. Sometimes they'll take the exam, pass it, then finish the quarter or the semester just so they can stay with their friends without worrying about grades.)

These aren't all of the problems, but I think I've covered most of them. It gets worse in the districts where you can't fail a kid without parental permission, or where there's a strong "anti-education" culture such as the "gangsta" or "too-cool-for-school" subcultures spread by MTV and certain music videos.

Answer 3

kids are disrespectful and rude and dont stop talking because they think they can get away with it, cuz teachers are ******* nowadays.

they also try to act cool by being defiant, having clever phrases, etc. etc.  

If I were you, the first time you tell the class to be quiet and they don't, pick the ONE person that EVERYBODY thinks is cool and make an example of him.  Humiliate him so bad that he doesn't want to come to class tomorrow.  Don't be humorous at all, be stern, and make him realize that talking out of turn will not ever be tolerated.  Then when you have played the bad cop routine and gotten respect and fear, THEN you can have fun and trust your students to do what theyre supposed to do while you dont have to be mean anymoer.  

after they are subdued, be nice- but if they try getting out of line, immediately jump again. it will make them wary.

Answer 4

Well I am from an abbott district and there is always a problem in the classroom. Just a month ago, two pregnant girls got into a fight during math class. A week or two ago, this girl got mad at getting paint in her weave (she by accidentally hit the brush to her hair) and then the girl got up, told her off, then the girl pulled her painted weave, they got to fighting, one girl got scissors and all put it to the girls throat so everyone left the room and it took security three minutes to get there. All of out security guards are not young. Ummmm what else. Students don't respect teachers, one girl yelled at the teacher because he told her and her friend to leave the classroom and change their clothes because their skirts were too short and she was like you did it because she and her friend were african american (there were 13 others in the class) so she lost it and cursed him out, pushed him down and let the room. My best friend decided to choke this girl because she threw paper at him. Our kids in the school don't respect the teachers at all! It is awful!    

Answer 5

A great example is the statement made by the first poster.  "Up your butt with a coconut."   You will find a disrespectful student displaying those clown antics.  Can be funny at times, but definitely inappropriate.  You will have constant chatter.  You will have a kid who doesn't listen and continues to display the behavior you don't want them to.  You might have a kid crying over someone bullying them or have done physical harm.  You might have a very sick child who might get other children sick.  Oh, and you might have heated fighting between two students.  Sometimes a student will want to hurt the teacher by pulling stupid pranks or being upset with a grade and wanting to do life threatening harm to a teacher.

Answer 6

I found it was:

Dealing with problematic behavior without denying the rest of the group my attention, time and energy needed to teach the lesson.  Another teacher taught me that  "The behavior you give attention to is the behavior you will get."  So instead of addressing problematic behavior right away I would turn my attention to a student that was setting a GOOD example and reward them by praise or whatever fit their age group.   IF the problem child was behaving just to get attention they quickly learned it was good behavior and not bad that got my attention.

Please note this was my experience with grades k-5.  Beyond that I admit I'm clueless.