Classroom Incidents

In addition to these standards, rights, and responsibilities, all teachers need to be consciously aware of possible problems dealing with students on an individual basis. In their mission of providing for the safety and welfare of all students, teachers can sometimes find themselves in situations that may be detrimental to themselves and their students. In practice, knowing how to avoid these situations is key. Dr. Troy Hutching’s presentation (Developing an Ethical Framework for Teacher Student Relationships: A Continuum of Responsibility, Nov. 1, 2011 Northern Arizona Univ.) was an eye opener. He provided the following startling facts: Shakeshaft (2004) reported 9.6% of grade 8-11

I imagine this to be a first grade classroom. The student, George, can get out of control, hits other students and staff, and is also prone to throwing his books and papers on the floor. George creates a disturbance in class that directly interferes with the teacher's ability to instruct class and other students' ability to learn. This disruptive behavior interferes with teacher's ability to teach effectively. It requires large amounts of teacher's time and attention and may require lessons to be stopped.

A professor, for the most part, is usually the one in charge in the classroom. They help lead and guide discussion while ensuring that all involved feel safe and free to share their thoughts without backlash and unnecessary criticism. Professor Deidre Cobb-Robert (2011), a professor at the University of Southern Florida, tells a different tale. She tells the story of a young man who, within her own classroom, subtly caused disruption and diminished her authority through his actions, citing safety for his reasons for doing so. He told this teacher and administrators of this school that he felt uncomfortable with and felt attacked during discussion, and, eventually, that he felt unsafe in the class and required security presence to attend class.

There was a young boy in the class who has many behavioral issues, he would tend to disrupt the class, or start interfering with another student’s learning. Seeing him “as the problem child” in the class; I would assume when he was involved in confrontation with another student it was his fault right away, until I would listen to the whole story. I think this is just

Behavior is a natural human occurrence. People deal with behavioral issues on a daily basis, whether they be good or bad. In the case that the issues are erroneous, the behavior causes problems for many. It provokes disruptions, such as interrupting class and missing instructions from a teacher. Both of these things are unacceptable and are reasons that a student may be susceptible to punishment, such as being kicked out of a classroom. These reasons are the main causes of why Meredith was removed from class today.

As we all strive to encourage the use of verbal de-escalation and reduce the occurrence of physical restraint, I would like to request that all programs ensure they’re entering every student restraint or student disturbance into the Risk Management reporting site. This will allow team members to identify common barriers staff members face as well as identify best practices across programs. I believe that the most programs are entering these incidents and I would like to thank you for doing so! For programs that have not been entering student restraint or student disturbance incidents into the reporting site, please begin doing so immediately. Documenting every incident provides the student, staff, and AMIkids as a whole the ability to revisit any event in detail should any injuries or allegations occur from the incident; I cannot stress how important highly detailed documentation is.

Tommy, an agitated 14-year-old high school student in Oakland, California was in the hallway cursing out his teacher at the top of his lungs. A few minutes earlier, in the classroom, he’d called the teacher a derogatory name after she twice asked him to remove his head from the desk and sit up straight. Eric Butler, the school coordinator for Restorative Justice (RJ) for Oakland Youth heard the commotion and rushed to the scene. The principle also heard it and rushed to address the issue. Though Butler tried to engage the young man in conversation, Tommy was in an uproar and would not respond. He even tried to hit Butler but missed. Immediately the principle lividly called for security while disclosing to Tommy he would be suspended.

Based on the information provided in the case study, which leaves a great amount of room for guessing due to only having a few facts and vague references to the actual incident; Mr. Chaddock should have calmly emptied his classroom of the other students. He should have notified the office of the situation and kept the student Robert T. within his room until the principal arrived to handle the situation.

The school board and the teacher involved both have reacted to the situation in a way to make the students and parents freak out. They should have taken a different approach and made the children at the high school do something more effective than retaking the class and doing the same thing over with the same project. As a student if I were to have to take a class over I wouldn’t learn right off the bat of the mistakes I made. These

During the observation of Morning Meeting, I noticed that my mentor teacher separated the children by gender when the calendar helper counted the number of boys and the girls in the classroom. My mentor teacher asked the calendar helper to have either the boys or girls stand up first to be counted. When the children are getting ready to go outside or to the bathroom, the teacher has also the boys and girls in separate lines. I felt that there were other characteristics for the teacher to separate the children. For example, she could she could have asked the children stand up or line up based on their eye color, hair color, the color of their clothing, their favorite animal, or even the first letter of their name. If my teacher broadened the

At the end of the lesson Students are going to be able to describe where they live using the verb "vivir" and "tener" in Spanish. During unit two, they been using the these verbs and in the beginning of the lesson they answer the "Do NOw" activity where I asked then: ?Donde tu vives? They answer the question in Spanish and used the verb in the correct tense. After that, they answer a listening question where they had to identify the part of the house using the vocabulary proposed at the beginning of the lesson. Finally, they started a project where they had to create a Floor plan and describe their ideal house. For this activity, they have to use the verb "tener" in present tense. The completion of these activities ensures the acquisition of the new vocabulary and the verbs tense. It is important to mention, that this lesson will continue next week because students need more time to complete their DOL activity.

First, do you enjoy teaching others? If so, teach something for which you have a deep passion.

Prior to my observation, I was eager to have an opportunity to observe a class for an entire school day. While I certainly have a background working in school settings, I have never been able to focus on understanding and evaluating the different aspects of the school day. For my observation, I was placed in an inclusive fourth grade class. Two co-teachers ran the class of eighteen students.

Conducting classroom observations are very important to the prospective teacher. Observing helps show how experienced teachers manage their classroom. For this observation it was important to notice how the classroom was arranged, how the teacher interacted with the students, the teacher’s management style, and interview the teacher.

A teacher must deal with disruptive classroom behavior throughout their career. To do so, they must not only develop their skills in handling these situations but also develop ethical standards for their classroom. These standards set forth by the teacher will help them deal with their students, those students’ parents, the school administrators and their community. There are numerous articles written that could help a teacher when researching any legal or ethical issues that may arise during their teaching career. This paper summarizes four