Public School System Is Changing Grade Levels

After observing the student, I agreed that the student is very disruptive during lessons and has difficulty staying on task, but there was one aspect of the student that truly caught my attention. He was usually the first to respond with the correct answer when the teacher asked a question. Also, by viewing scores on his math or science tests, you could tell that he was understanding the material because his grades were 90s or higher. The student is super smart, but was acting with certain behavioral issues that were causing him to be disruptive and not stay on task or completing his work.

These are all things to look out for. When I see child Y like this i try to distract him first by talking about his chart and how well he is doing and if that does’t work I remove him from the class room and take him to the green room as he has been known to be very aggressive.

It is important for a teacher to challenge disruptive behaviour immediately and consistently. I feel by trying to make lessons enjoyable and providing work that helps students to achieve minimizes disruptive behaviour. The use of good communication by the teacher can also be a useful tool. This includes the use of the voice, phrasing, eye contact and body language. For example, using an assertive tone when making a request or physically positioning yourself near disruptive students.

Students all have their own personalities, which affects their actions within the classroom. Many times, a students’ behavior is caused by outside factors causing them to act out with disruptive behaviors and disciplinary issues. During these times, a teacher must have a behavior management approach to deter similar behaviors in the future. Many first time teachers are unable to handle dealing with the behaviors and leave their jobs making it all the more important to come up with an effective behavior management approach to curtail those worrisome behaviors before it gets to that point (Sugai, 2009). In an effort to thoroughly discuss an efficient behavior management approach, a common disciplinary problem within classroom and the foundation of the issue will be considered. A combination of approaches may be to needed to stop behavioral issues, such as providing motivation and establishing rules and procedures in a clear way will deter behavioral issues. Finally, an in-depth look at the steps needed in order to implement the approach into the classroom.

The article “No! I will not! Understanding and responding to student defiance” is published by Andrea Smith and Elizabeth Bondy, 4-th grade teacher and a University of Florida College of Education professor respectively, in Childhood education magazine. It contains a thorough analysis of the defiance issue as well as a manual, regulating the conduct of a teacher, who pursues a goal of effective students’ behavior management.

Researchers have found that home life plays a very important role in how kids learn. Barbara Heyns, tested students at the end of the year and at the beginning of the next year in order to see if the summer months caused this achievement gap to widen. She found “that gaps in skills grew quickly during the summer in between, when school was out” (Downey and Gibbs 349). Based on this research, Downey and Gibbs conclude that school actually lessens the gap because students retain more during the school year than in the summer months where the gap widens. The obvious solution then, is to change the school year to year-round education, however researchers found that students learned about the same amount in both school rotations (Downey and Gibbs 346-351).

When dealing with behavior, remain calm and positive. Do not allow yourself to get in a power struggle with a student. Use system of least prompts to help the child work through the issue.

Applying this reactionary philosophy of organizational change to post-secondary public school systems is the exact jumpstart that this environment truly needs. Indeed, this particular approach is especially applicable to post-secondary public school systems because it places a strong focus on the change aspect of organizational change, taking steps to improve with every failure. This is useful because this environment is one of "live and learn." That is, post-secondary public school systems oftentimes rely on management theories that must be tweaked and changed as weaknesses or flaws emerge in them. On the other hand, this particular organizational change theory would essentially anticipate these failures, and pre-construct varying concepts and theories around these failures, essentially preparing for them before they even occur (Weick & Quinn, 1999).

I have a 13 year old boy at school by the name of Cory and he is finishing up his 7th grade year. Cory is a very nice and respectable young man but all year has struggled to stay on task and turn work assignments in on time. Cory’s mother has to come to the school periodically to help him clean out his locker and at home clean out his back pack to find some of Cory’s missing assignments. Cory has been having a hard time in school with his peers and some of his teachers. His friends thinks that most of the time Cory is being annoying and his teachers complain that he cannot stay on task, does not listen and talks too much. The teachers have spoken to Cory’s parents on several occasions to try to come up with solutions to the problem but so far no success with any long term changes.

Educational Reform: If you could make one significant change in the public education system what would it be.

Under the school’s current behavior policy, he has frequently received discipline for his behavior and his lack of effort in his classes. These sanctions include writing as punishment, corporal punishment, and isolation through In School Suspension. This is the second year that he has received such punishments with little to no change in his behavior and performance. However, through the use of a behavioral plan, the student should improve his behavior and his learning.

This school year somethings are going to change. Somethings I will change and somethings I will keep the same. I will change all the problems and everything else will stay the same or I will tweak it. There are also things I am looking forward to and things I am not looking forward to. Continue reading to find out what they are.

The student is blatantly disrespectful toward the teacher when re-directed. The student has had several warnings, still continued to be disruptive and does not follow the teacher's instruction. The teacher has asked the student to change her seat due to her talking and disturbing others, she replied "no, I am not moving." Then, she continued to say "I don't want to move." This is a repetitive behavior. Her parents have been notified several times for her behavior, and still no changes. Parent statement to me "you don't have to take anything from Nezya."

Having a disruptive student in the class can also serve as a learning tool for the other students. It can help the students to learn how to deal with distractions in a situation where concentration is needed. Sometimes being exposed to situations at an early age and in a controlled environment can show students that not everyone is the same or even acts the same. This isn’t to say that I agree with them. As a 5 year or 7 years old it may be a little too early to worry about throwing students into problem situations as a way of teaching. Life will be full of these situations and I truly believe that there is no hurry for them to be exposed to such situations. With some students it may even cause more damage than teaching a lesson. I don’t believe that keeping a disruptive student in the classroom is a good idea due to the distraction it causes the students and the added stress on the teacher.

Disruptive behaviors are conditions that can have a great influence in the teaching environment. Disruptive behaviors unswervingly hinder the ability of the teacher or the capability of a learner to benefit from their classroom experiences. Students attend schools with hopes of being productive citizens of society. I like to think of students as future leaders of tomorrow! For the most part, students attend school because it is the law. A learning environment should have actively engaged students, who are eager to participate and show knowledge is being acquired on a daily basis. However, some students are bored and disengaged with academic struggles, due to non-active lessons. Certain life factors such as family problems, financial difficulties are all factors that distract and contribute to students disruptive behaviors. One of the most detrimental settings for a teacher in a class is classroom management. Classroom management is defined as being "the methods and strategies an educator uses to maintain a classroom environment that is conducive to student success and learning" (McCreary, 2011). Disorderly student conduct is unfavorable to the entire academic process because they impede with the learning process of other classmates and cause teachers not to be able to instruct teachers most effectively.