Behavioral Students

Behavior Plans for Students with Behavioral Problems

Some quick ideas to assist you with behavioral students. Implement the tips that are relevant to your behavior
students.

Today, there are countless acronyms to describe students. As a Substitute teacher I do not have the time to
worry about labels but to have a great teaching day with the entire class. I find within the first 30 seconds a
student walks in the classroom, I will know if they are in need of a great deal of attention to stay on task.
Instead of beginning the day with reprimanding them to remain in their seats and so on, I begin with giving
them tasks right at the start of the day.
Most if not all behavior students wish to be noticed and if they get attention from misbehaving they are willing
to walk the path with the consequences. I have been a visiting teacher for the past year and I have not had a
difficult time with any student. At times, it is challenging but I have a grab bag of ideas to deal with behavior
students that will benefit the class, the student and the teacher.
Behavior Plans For Students

• Give them a variety of situations to help in the classroom. Have them run errands in the middle of class
even if they are not necessary such as returning library books. Behavior students want to help and often
have a great deal of restless energy. You may also have them assist in telling students to get ready for a
new task. Behavior students seem to love to have some authority.

• Work on a points system and give behavior students something they would appreciate. Pencils and
candies become old quite quickly. If the misbehaving student is the class clown allow them five minutes
before the end of the day to entertain the class. Students will appreciate it and they are more willing to
follow the rule. Jim Carey was the class clown who was given time at the end of the day to entertain his
classmates.

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Allow all students to work with a variety of mediums in all classes. Allow math manipulative to be used
or for students to create an experiment. Often students who misbehave are bored, do not understand the
directions, or the task is too difficult. Also, allow the students to work in pairs or small groups. If a
student is unable to work well with someone have them partner with you so you are able to demonstrate
how to work well with other students. Peers have enormous influence and many students work well with
each other.

• Create an environment that is respectful of all. If the classroom is rigid and errors are not acceptable, a
poor student is more willing to be the class clown because they do not want to be ridiculed about their
education level. It is vital to create a safe environment for all and have consequences and incentives laid
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 out for all students. It is best for the class to problem solve the best consequences and incentives for
showing or not showing respect.

Misbehaving students are great students one on one, in groups they become uncomfortable and are trying to
show their strength and there only avenue is by demonstrating unacceptable behavior. Teach the student how to
shift the unacceptable behavior to acceptable behavior. It is worth the time.

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Dealing with Misbehaviour

Misbehaviour and behaviour problems can arise because students feel frustrated and bored in
school. Instructional programs that actively involve students can prevent such problems. Another
common reason students misbehave is because they want the teacher's attention. To deal with this,
teachers should just pay attention to the student's good behaviour and ignore them when they are
misbehaving. As well, students may be seeking peer attention as well. To deal with this - either remove
the misbehaviour from the room or use group contingencies (where the entire class is rewarded on the
basis of everyone's behaviour). A lot of problems which teachers must deal with are minor disruptions
in the classroom. Students must respect teachers and the rules that they have made. Therefore, teachers
need to establish their authority over the classroom. In dealing with classroom problems, it is best to
correct behaviours by using the simplest intervention. The more time spent disciplining, the less
achievement from students. Dealing with it should be effective, quick and not disrupt the lesson.

Prevention is a way to deal with misbehaviour before it occurs. This can be done by keeping
students busy and interested, as well as avoiding frustration due to too hard of lessons. There are some
non-verbal cues that can be used to avert misbehaviour. Making eye contact with a misbehaving
student may be enough to stop them. Moving closer to a student may also stop them.

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How to deal with misbehaving pupils
Tuesday, July 22, 2008 9:51:26 AM by ANI ( Leave a comment )

Washington, July 22 (ANI): Teaching a large group of students who would rather spend their time texting or
talking can be a nightmare for any individual. Now, a leading academic has offered some tips as to how to deal
with inappropriate behavior in the classroom.

Writing in the Journal of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Education, Marvin Druger of Syracuse
University said that he never paid much attention to inappropriate student behavior in his class, assuming that
most students were paying attention and taking notes.

One day, after lecture, a disgruntled young man approached him and complained about other students talking in
class. This comment made Druger aware that there was a problem that required his attention.

“After observation, I learned that text messaging, talking on cells phones and with other students, drawing
pictures in notebooks, doing other homework, reading a book, and sleeping were all occurring during my
lecture,” said Druger.

Druger decided to send an email message to the students about misbehavior to all the students in the course.

He made the students aware that he had complaints from students who are distracted by these inappropriate
behaviors.

Part of the email message read, “If you are one of the few disruptive students that Im talking about, please think
about your behavior and modify it. Im trying to enrich your life, and its frustrating to see that a few students in
the class seem not to care.”

The week after sending the email to all the students in the large class, the results were very gratifying.

“Students had stopped being disruptive and were attentively listening to the lecture and taking notes,” said
Druger.

It seems that an effective way to handle student misbehavior in a lecture class is to simply be very direct with
the students, the expert said.

Once students think about their behavior and realize that it is inappropriate, they will likely cooperate. It is a
matter of reaching into the adult component of the students mind, he added. (ANI)

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Reasons Why Students Misbehave in Class
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When I was a student, I had witnessed how my classmates behaved in class. Some were talkative, others were very quiet
and attentive and there were others who were showy and overconfident. In my personal experience as a

student, I am easily tempted to talk and I enjoyed doing it while the discussion is going on specially if we can not hear the
teacher's voice clearly. It's hard to remain quiet and attentive when you don't understand what is going on. The common
reaction of teachers in this situation is to call the talkative and answer the questions asked from the discussion. You could
just imagine how embarrassing it is when the students do not know what to say or don't even know what is going on when
their names are called. What do you think are the common factors of students' misbehavior in class? Here are common
reasons why students mis behave in class.. Let's look at these some points.

Teacher's voice couldn't be heard clearly. When the teacher's voice is too soft and students could barely hear what is
going on, they won't pay attention. They will make noise. The naughty boys will create funny things and this will bother
those who are interested to learn. Students will start to talk especially those who are sitting at the back part of the
classroom when the teacher's voice is too low in volume. It will frustrate the students when they could not hear the
instructions clearly the very reason of their misbehavior.

Teacher is not well prepared of the lesson. Some teachers lack preparation when they enter the classroom. They will
just let their students read silently the topic in the book, no further discussion and let them answer the questions
themselves at the end of the topic. Some teachers let their students copy things on the board just to let them stay in place
while they are busy doing other things on their tables. They have nothing to share because they lack preparation.
Teachers' lack of preparation can cause kids' behavior problems in the class . There are students who are smart. When
they observed that their teacher is not prepared, they became less attentive. They felt bored and restless when the class
is not interesting. They will roam around, do funny things, talk, laugh, throwing things just to ease their boredom. Lesson
planning is the most crucial part in teaching and this should be given top priority by teachers before anything else.
Teachers who have less time to plan their lesson and make it interesting are contributing factors to students' misbehavior.
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Kids of broken family or troubled family background. These type of kids are often trouble makers in class.They come
to school with emotional problems and they have hard time adjusting other children. They are sensitive and irritable. They
easily get into fight in just little things. They need love and attention but other children could not understand them. Their
emotional outlet is the classroom thus behavior problems occur.

Parent factor. Some parents are too strict and their word is always the rule. Their kids are pressured at home and they
feel free when they are out of the house. The classroom is the displaying ground of their suppress emotions and the result
is behavior problem. On the other hand, busy parents become lenient. Since they were too tired from work, they have no
time to check what is going on with their kids. They presumed that everything is just fine with them. They tolerate
unpleasant behavior, no consequences given when they commit mistakes and no discipline imposed. This will spoil their
kids and made them think that everything they do is acceptable in whatever place they would be, even in the classroom.
Parents are the contributing factors of their kids' behavior in school. It will reflect on how they treat them at home.

Slow learners not given attention. When the slow learners are not given attention, they will be disappointed and instead
of cooperating, they will make trouble in class. They will misbehave because of their frustrations. Lesson is not interesting
when they feel that they are far behind from other classmates. When they have a hard time understanding the lesson and
they are not given consideration, they will display unpleasant behavior.

Too much TV viewing and video games. When kids were involved in too much TV viewing and video games, they lost
interest in school activities. They are not attentive in class, they make noise, most of the time they were talking to
classmates about what they saw in TV and what interesting games they played even when the discussion is going on.
They are less cooperative in class activities, not doing what is suppose to be done and often day dream in class.
Inconsistency. When the teacher is inconsistent in her instructions and requirements, students get frustrated and
irritated. They lost interest and respect from their teacher and this result to misbehaving. They just

wanted to show that they are disappointed.

Most teachers can not understand the students' behavior unless they will strive to know each individual student by heart.

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Dealing with misbehaving students
Submitted by Ericm on 15 June, 2010 - 19:19

Students behaving badlly is nothing new, but each year the problem seems to get worse, especially with teenage
students. Being a student counsellor I have to deal with these things very often. Earlier it was students skipping
classes, then it became text messaging and now a days with internet connected smart phones, students do
unimmaginable things. Sites like MySpace, Facebook have made the world like a dating platform. Interest in
studies seems to have gone down and students like to play video games (Wii, xbox etc..).

With people immigrating from all over the world, classrooms becoming more and more diverse but it
sometimes leads to other issues like kids from same background sticking together and not sticking too well with
others groups. Parents on the other hand just fulfill all demands of their kids (genuine or not), but when it comes
to descipline they are very defensive towards their child and cannot see their child getting punished.

Question: I would like to know your thoughts and things you can think or do to counter such student behaviour
problems.

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besherry
lack of discipline
Submitted on 16 June, 2010 - 16:10

I understand your frustration, there's been a constant decline in student discipline, kids feel they're free to do
what they like and the parents are unable or unwilling to play their part. Unfortunately when the child fails its
the teacher that gets the blame!

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etsiota
I couldn’t agree more
Submitted on 16 June, 2010 - 23:08

I couldn’t agree more with what you said. I am Greek and I work in a foreign language school. Things are
supposed (only supposed) to be better in the private sector because students pay to learn a foreign language, but
the comments I hear from teachers in the public schools are even more disappointing.

It is true that parents have no "authority" on their children and I believe this is the cause of the problem. They
do what their children ask them to. A mother once confessed that she didn't know how to make her daughter
stop watching so much TV. Couldn't she just turn it off and send her teenage daughter to her room to study-
otherwise there would be no more pocket money or going out with friends? - am I too strict?

Instead of that parents buy their children the most expensive games and mobile phones as a reward for I don't
know what...because the students surely don't deserve rewards for the poor work they do. I wonder why I assign
homework. 80% of the students either don't do it or they copy it from others 10 minutes before the lesson starts.
And when I inform the parents, the answer I get is that the child was tired, not feeling so well, had to study
much and so on.

I also believe that children cannot be blamed for this situation. Firstly because they are children and its only
natural for them to enjoy as much freedom as they can get. Secondly because they are not mature enough to
deal with inadequate parents.

So in the classroom I collect the mobile phones before the lesson starts and I give them back when it finishes.(I
wonder why students give me their mobiles and parents can't take the wiis from their children- which makes me
believe that parents have a problem and not their children). I try to check homework not by just asking for the
answers but by asking for justification as well - ask for the rule or the exception in a grammar exercise, for the
phrase that justifies the answer in a reading exercise, for synonyms, antonyms or derivatives in a vocabulary
exercise or even prepare a short quiz on the homework with different questions from the ones they had for
homework. This way the ones who have worked on homework do some more things and the ones who have
copied have to do something on their own. All these of course take up some time from the extra things we could
do if everyone worked as they should, but it's better than nothing, isn't it?

I have also tried some humour to make students understand that real life is much more different than school life.
I have put on the classroom wall some sayings I have found and I liked them: "if you think that your teacher is
tough, wait until you get a boss”,"life is unfair. Get used to it”; be nice to nerds”. Chances are that you will end
up working for one of them".

As for the parents, I think that they should have some training on how to treat/handle/discipline their children....

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Ericm
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Misbehaving students
Submitted on 17 June, 2010 - 16:36

Thanks for your thoughts, this is surely a common problem we face. I enjoyed this comment - "if you think that
your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss"

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mouhannad sleiman
misbehaving students
Submitted on 18 June, 2010 - 13:13

For me, I think there is no magic stick that can help here. But, having a classroom contract in the beginning of
the year, being as friendly, open-minded, flexible, serious, and strict as possible at the same time, and being
well-prepared (lesson planning ) would of course help.

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fatihyalcin
Setting the rules and
Submitted on 19 June, 2010 - 00:18

Setting the rules and explaining them to the students always work at the beginning of the semester. Students,
when it comes to classroom environment, are much more clever than we think. At first, they monitor the
teacher's attitudes toward an unpleasant situation (whether the teacher punishes or ignores, etc.). How you
respond those kinds of problems is your first impression in terms of classroom management. Having reputed as
a "moderate" teacher, I always tell my students that I can't stand seeing students texting with no interest in the
lesson. I tell them they can leave the class without permission quietly and come back without knocking in case
of emergency. I had thought that they can manipulate this situation, however, few students did it.

This mobile phone issue is something to be solved by the school administration, I think. Teacher can take
limited precautions, it is the institution's administration.

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leaderboss
where is the solution?
Submitted on 21 June, 2010 - 12:00

I don't know how to deal with the misbehaving students. How to deal with the naughty students? what to do?

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dplanner
Trouble makers
Submitted on 22 June, 2010 - 17:11

The part of the world I'm from, misbehaving children are shown the cane. As a grown adult I feel we have
evolved pass this. Its now down to parenting and teachers working together on the persistent trouble makers.
Without this will only get worse. Bad diet, long work hours combined with the more and more violent games
will only make matters worse.

Society on a while has got to change, not just the child that is giving trouble.

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frenchbob
Misbehaving students
Submitted on 22 June, 2010 - 20:04

Can I recommend a site run by Rob Plevin, it is a mine of useful information even if you choose not to buy any
of his ebooks (and they are worth it!)

http://www.behaviourneeds.co.uk/resources/

Rob is used to dealing with extremely disruptive students (the referals) and he has aweealth of experience

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jimjon3s
I read those books
Submitted on 2 July, 2010 - 10:09

I had read those book you mentioned. Some of the suggest way do work. However, it is still quite dependent on
the student character and also family background

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Ericm
Misbehaving students vs naughty students
Submitted on 12 July, 2010 - 18:10

To Leaderboss -

There of a very fine line between misbehaving students and naughty students. I would think that the same
classroom management rules will apply in both cases. Of course misbehaving students will have to be dealt with
relatively more seriousness / strictness.

Dealing with misbehaving students

Students behaving badlly is nothing new, but each year the problem seems to get worse, especially with teenage
students. Being a student counsellor I have to deal with these things very often. Earlier it was students skipping
classes, then it became text messaging and now a days with internet connected smart phones, students do
unimmaginable things. Sites like MySpace, Facebook have made the world like a dating platform. Interest in
studies seems to have gone down and students like to play video games (Wii, xbox etc..).

With people immigrating from all over the world, classrooms becoming more and more diverse but it
sometimes leads to other issues like kids from same background sticking together and not sticking too well with
others groups. Parents on the other hand just fulfill all demands of their kids (genuine or not), but when it comes
to descipline they are very defensive towards their child and cannot see their child getting punished.

Question: I would like to know your thoughts and things you can think or do to counter such student behaviour
problems.

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Ericm
Moderate teacher
Submitted on 13 July, 2010 - 16:39

To fatihyalcin

I like your idea of becoming a moderate teacher. As far as students being 'mature' .. I think it really depends
what level of students you are teaching. I think a moderate approach will work well for mature students, but for
teenage classroom, they might actually take advantage of it and take an excuse of slipping out of the class.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

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Ericm
Misbehaving students
Submitted on 9 September, 2010 - 16:50

Yes Jimjon,

Thats true, sometimes the family background also impacts the behaviour of students. It is really hard to find an
equilibrium when dealing with students.

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Aysel Ece
To know where to stop our students
Submitted on 10 September, 2010 - 08:55

I think discipline is not being very strict of course but to know where to stop our students.

Yes we should be respectful to our students but not to allow them to do everything what they want to do.We
should teach them how to behave.I don't want to say we should dominate them.I don't mean this.We should
know what to do.I realized that-according to my experince-when I do lesson plans and guess what will be
discipline problems everyday before lessons and study my lessons as ıf I was a student everything goes super.In
additon to this to know our students well it is really important because our students would have problems maybe
they would be ill or other things... in more crowded classes it is really difficult to do this but it is really
important.

I know it is really difficult to do them everyday because we have our lifes and our families but I think it is the
cure for this cancer.

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