Teach English in Beihuaidian Zhen - Tianjin

Discipline in the CLassroomDiscipline in a classroom can be a serious problem when kids are misbehaving teachers deal with this in different ways like it is far more common for a teacher to eject a misbehaving student from the classroom in hopes of maintaining order. school officials realize that, unless the incident involves weapons, violence, or drugs, throwing students out of class defeats the learning process. As a result, teachers have turned to alternative punishments .here is come good points on punishments -Punishment should be used sparingly. The more often it is used, the less effective it becomes. -Punishment should never constitute retaliation. Teachers who punish students "to get back at them" do not belong in education. -Subject matter should not be used as punishment. Requiring pupils to do an extra page of math or write an extra book report reduces the chance that they will develop favorable attitudes in these areas. In the long run, much more is lost than gained. -Avoid mass punishment. Teachers should never punish the entire class for the transgressions of a few. Many teachers fall into this trap; few escape without loss of respect. -Avoid corporal punishment, It usually represents a last-ditch effort to change behavior. The implication is that if it fails, nothing else can be done All classrooms have to have a positive culture that reinforces certain values, such as respect and fairness, and makes students feel welcome and successful. Although creating a positive culture sounds simple, it is a lot more challenging than just being nice to students. Today, students bring many complicated issues to school. There are many students coming from home environments where they are not receiving adequate support to develop the social skills for interacting appropriately in school. Additionally, students are exposed to an increasingly violent and unpredictable society that causes stress. There are also the typical problems that students have been exhibiting for years that interfere with a positive culture, such as teasing and bullying. Despite the challenges, teachers need to make creating a positive classroom community a daily priority. Some teachers have very specific strategies for creating a positive community in there classroom. They select a specific quality to work on in there classroom, such as responsibility. She reads student literature that highlights this quality, then on a daily basis points out those students engaging in responsible behavior and describes for the class what the acknowledged students are doing. they also encourages other students in the class to point out when a peer has done something responsible. Every week the teacher and the class nominate a student who has best displayed this behavior, and the class recognizes that student. Even though a positive class is difficult to achieve, teachers need to ground their disciplinary interactions with students on a solid foundation of care and concern for each other. Then, students will perceive their teacher's disciplinary actions as fair and in the best interest of the entire class. The teacher is on their side rather than working against them. When the classroom culture is positive, teachers can use several prevention techniques: -Child-proofing the classroom so potential problems are out of reach and under teacher control, -establishing rules and consequences, - ignoring inconsequential negative behaviors and refocusing on the positive, -redirecting rather than reprimanding students, and -Allowing students a variety of choices to reach an agreed-upon instructional goal. At the most basic level, teachers need to child proof the classroom,. Specifically, they have to pay attention to the curriculum and its appropriateness for the child. Many students misbehave to avoid a task that is too difficult for them. With this in mind, behavioral difficulties can be prevented by ensuring that each student can participate fully and successfully in the lesson. Teachers must remember to provide students with a variety of choices to reach an agreed-upon instructional goal. That is one of the important things for teachers to remember that all instruction should have a goal, and students may be able to achieve that goal in a variety of ways. If students sense some control of what they are doing, it can prevent problems from occurring. Asking students which project they might want to do increases the likelihood that they will become involved in the instruction and, consequently, be less of a behavior problem.