MANAGING THE DISTRUPTIVE BEHAVIOR OF YOUR STUDENTS

Have you ever experienced a situation that while you’re discussing the lesson you’re student will suddenly pop out from the door, 20 minutes late, or a two students keep on talking and chit chatting about something out of your topic and stealing all the attention of their classmates or maybe a dally student who’s too lazy to sit properly causing a sore on your eyes, or maybe having a “supervisor” on your room wherein a child acted like a supervisor which will stand suddenly, will wander here and there, observe what’s going on outside while you’re talking in front? And thus these scenarios keep on repeating? Well, if that’s the case, you have disruptive students that you have to deal with.

Being distracted with the behavior of your students is really normal especially when they really tend to disrupt your discussion. There are hundreds of reason for a child to create something that will annoy you, it might be intentional or maybe it’s a pure innocent and unaware behavior that is usually normal with children, but it’s always up to the teacher on how will she react upon this situations. Usually the first impulse of a teacher, especially when it keeps on repeating when she faced such circumstances is to scold or to lecture a student without even knowing a back ground of what happened. In situations like this a teacher must remain calm and controlled, whether her student became really annoying, still the child has the right to explain his side. But when a child commit a certain mistake for the first time, you can give him certain advice or maybe some reminders, and don’t forget to let him explain, but you should ignore it like nothing happened. but if the situation get worst, that’s the time you should show them a little anger so that they’ll realized that they already annoyed you so much.

In some case, students will enjoy their teacher being angry. That’s the time that the

CARYL LISSETTE A. REYES teacher should consider way of taming mean and a child to be attentionseeker, rude students. If a student and she’ll surely isn’t afraid of you, need a long patience to that only shows that the deal with students like child is immune of anger this. Sometimes, student and being beaten will create scenes from where the child or will interrupt their came from so when you teacher every now or show them that you care, then just to get attention they will respect you that they’re lacking and obey you. from their family, in that Not all the time this case, the teacher cannot would be effective, because intimidate the child by not all the students using glares, raising has the same behavior, voice slightly or even another thing threatening them for a you can do is that, you punishment because can busy them by giving they won’t be scared them tasks and responsibility they’ll just enjoy you that will make giving them all you attention. them feel how hard it is Instead of wasting to be in your position. energy and power Think of something creative just to frighten them, and effective that you can just be calm can stop them from being and show them that their disruptive. You can behavior won’t affect do different things and you because as long as methods that you think you’ll show them you’re will be effective to distract angry they will just push them and to tame you to your limits. You them they are your student can show them that you so more or less you care about them that know them so you can you can bear them, and think about something that you are not like which suits them. Another somebody who pushed case is when you them to be hard headed noticed a child is not or to be cruel but you listening to you, you are somebody who can could ask the student, give them love, that is it’s possible that the one of the very effective child cannot go with your discussion because it’s too fast or maybe she had some problems you can talk to her. But when you noticed that majority of the class don’t pay attention to you, that’s the time you should think, maybe you have to change something.

But when the situation gets uncontrollable, the best thing to do is to talk to the child’s guardian, and let them know what’s going on.

The teacher is the only person who can solve her own problem regarding a disruptive student because she knows her student more when it comes to the classroom behavior. From the many different ways and strategy of dealing with these students, the best way to do is to use patience over violence and to handle them with care.

— oOo— The author is Teacher III at Abelardo G. Tinio

Elementary School, Division of Angeles City