Estimated time required to complete module: 20 h
Classroom behaviours 5
MISTAKES!
- Getting involved in Yes, you will. No, I won’t contests with these learners.
- Becoming emotionally involved.
- Losing your professional dignity, raising your voice, or arguing with the defiant learner.
- Feeling you are the cause of the defiance. This is not true unless you are shouting, arguing, or being sarcastic in retaliation. These tactics will increase the intensity of the problem.
- Taking the defiance personally.
- Dealing with the learner in class rather than on a one-to-one basis in private.
- Trying to get other learners on your side.
- Trying to impose unusually harsh and inappropriate punishments in retaliation.
- Issuing threats which you are neither prepared nor capable of carrying out.
- Trying to appease the defier, or allowing the learner to think you are afraid.
Remember! Every school has its own policies Develop your own personal classroom management style. |