Respect + confidence: Two key factors in behavior management
By Scott Mines
EDI 600 Psychological Foundation of Education
School of Education
Long Island University, C. W. Post
April 15, 2009
Today’s class on behavioral management taught me one important thing. How I do not want to teach. The video we saw was very compelling. I could not believe how the teacher responded to her class acting out. It seemed as if she had no formal training, and was teaching for the first time. The students were so out of control and so was she. She had no skills at behavior management. In my opinion, I would have gotten the class under control by some of the techniques we learned in class. First of all there was absolutely no respect for the teacher, and the teacher did not have any respect for the students.
When I begin my teaching career the first order of business for me is to earn the respect of the students, and show them that I respect them. I will find out their backgrounds to start with. What students were like in previous classes? What assessments were made regarding their learning styles? What kind of test takers are they? A teacher must then begin to instill confidence in her students individually by getting to know their interests, home life, hobbies, and what subjects they excel in or don’t. These two aspects of teaching, respect and confidence are paramount to beginning a new school year. Once you establish these aspects your life as a teacher becomes so much easier.
In response to the statement I received, “When dealing with student’s misbehavior, teachers should have a behavior management plan and not randomly decide the consequences at the moment. I think a teacher should have an overall behavioral management plan, as well as individual plan for each student.
By getting to know a student and his behaviors you can adjust to the situation. Every child responds differently. As I stated in class, students’ behavioral aspects will change during the day. I learned this first hand by a very respectable educator who went through a situation like that. He stated that children may react slower in the morning, be hyped up before lunch, and tired at the end of the day. A teacher must adjust at the moment and use different behavioral techniques that pertain to different times of the day. This was a really good observation on his part, and I will keep this in mind when I begin my career.
Long Island University, C. W. Post
April 15, 2009
Today’s class on behavioral management taught me one important thing. How I do not want to teach. The video we saw was very compelling. I could not believe how the teacher responded to her class acting out. It seemed as if she had no formal training, and was teaching for the first time. The students were so out of control and so was she. She had no skills at behavior management. In my opinion, I would have gotten the class under control by some of the techniques we learned in class. First of all there was absolutely no respect for the teacher, and the teacher did not have any respect for the students.
When I begin my teaching career the first order of business for me is to earn the respect of the students, and show them that I respect them. I will find out their backgrounds to start with. What students were like in previous classes? What assessments were made regarding their learning styles? What kind of test takers are they? A teacher must then begin to instill confidence in her students individually by getting to know their interests, home life, hobbies, and what subjects they excel in or don’t. These two aspects of teaching, respect and confidence are paramount to beginning a new school year. Once you establish these aspects your life as a teacher becomes so much easier.
In response to the statement I received, “When dealing with student’s misbehavior, teachers should have a behavior management plan and not randomly decide the consequences at the moment. I think a teacher should have an overall behavioral management plan, as well as individual plan for each student.
By getting to know a student and his behaviors you can adjust to the situation. Every child responds differently. As I stated in class, students’ behavioral aspects will change during the day. I learned this first hand by a very respectable educator who went through a situation like that. He stated that children may react slower in the morning, be hyped up before lunch, and tired at the end of the day. A teacher must adjust at the moment and use different behavioral techniques that pertain to different times of the day. This was a really good observation on his part, and I will keep this in mind when I begin my career.
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