Teachers need to constantly remind themselves that they are the targets of disturbing classroom behavior, and that their reactions tend to sustain and strengthen undesirable behavior. Before teachers can begin to assist individual children, they must stop giving undue attention, fighting, retaliating, or accepting student’s displays of inability. That is the first step in any corrective program. Students who constantly disrupt, invite attention, rebel, or violate order, are discouraged individuals who feel that they cannot find a place in the class through constructive and cooperative behaviors, and consequently turn to more destructive and inadequate behaviors in their attempt to find a sense of significance.
There are a number of processes designed to help pupils to develop more adequate ways of behaving, but before these approaches can be used, teachers must stop responding to unacceptable behaviors. As a first step, teachers should train themselves to go against their first impulse and, consequently, break the detrimental cycle whereby a student acts and a teacher reacts.
A two part interactive quiz may be found below. Part one looks at matching a behavior with the form of power goal and part two focuses on how a teacher might feel about a student’s misbehavior.
Instructions: Simply click on your choice from the options provided
Instructions: In this quiz there are 8 questions with multiple answers. Simply click on the answer you think is correct, then on the ‘Show Answer’ button to find out the correct answer. When you have completed the quiz your results will be displayed.
