All students must engage in their learning or things must be adjusted to fit them. Angry students must still engage like the rest to learn but in the end, if a student is destroying the learning environment, action must be taken.
Students who are cheaters will take every effort and opportunity to cheat. Remove as many of these opportunities as you can. Help these students to achieve success through their own efforts. This will help them to develop their own ethical perspectives as well.
Stay on top of your students and pay attention to what goes on in the classroom.
Never assume. Always observe and get the backstory on challenging students.
How to deal with different types of students with different behavior problems.
I find that clear explanation of the objectives is the key
Behavior that go in opposite direction of the class need to be addressed
I learned that sometimes you must dismiss a student from class if they are being disruptive and hindering other students learning opportunitie. Also, that students are most often tempted to cheat when they have an opportunity.
Make sure I'm the one running my classroom.
I plan on using this information first by setting clear expectations. If everyone knows what is expected, when they have disruptive behavior, it's easier to back it up. And also it is important to listen to all students and make all of them feel valued and important, even the quite ones.
With my angry students or might I say my students that usually want to act out and keep all attention on them, I usually try to include them in all activities and have more one on one conversations and this usually allows them to know that I care and I don' have as many problems with them.
I like the suggestion to tally how often I engage with each student daily. That will help me connect with those who just take up less space in the class. I also have found angry students to be my most challenging and stressful students. I appreciated the suggestions to listen and take notes, and also to provide an opportunity for them to submit a written complaint.
I learned that monitoring your students a great thing to do. It helps you to give insight about how the teach and how they learn.
I learned something that will help with students, this was not in the module but if others read it will help too. Ask the angry student: Do you want to vent or do you want solutions. You can tell when a child is having a hard time and having that rapport with them allows you to know who they are as a person. If the frequent flyers are having the disruptions get to know them the most. It helps. Sometimes it can be hard to be calm with them but having consistency throughout the classes is key.
From this module, I have learned the importance of monitoring the various types of students that I may encounter (silent, angry, cheater, etc).
I really liked the idea of a student submitting a written complaint, that way I have a paper trail, I have down what the student is saying they need or not getting and I can address those concerns legitimately.
Learning how to identify the different types of behaviors in learners
The ultimate disciplinary response is to remove a student from the class. The same goes in the employment world students are signed up to enter. However, as instructors, class leaders or managers, it is incumbent for instructors to be resourceful in making every reasonable effort to help a student recover from their woes. Some students might be experiencing external struggles that lead to diminished performance in class. This could be academic performance or episodes of bad behavior. In most instances, the students we are guiding towards becoming productive citizens, are young and lack maturity and critical thinking skills. In this regard, dismissal from class is a very last resort and all efforts applied to assist in recovery should be meticulously documented. On the other hand, extreme issues such as fighting, bullying other students, or civil disobedience that is unacceptable in local, state and federal laws must be quickly addressed. In many instances, it might be best for the student as they might not recognize that they are on the wrong path.
What I've found most helpful in terms of student development, and what this course mentions, is the elimination of a final exam at the end of the module. I've found that most students would call themselves "bad test takers," although their problem really lies in the fact that they are anxious of subjects only covered for a few hours a week. It is easy to have lost information through the cracks of a rapid placement program, and so having to recap the current problems on hand, instead of mountains of information, helps resolve a lot of the anxiety in testing, as well as makes the task of examination much more feasible. I'd also mention here that this does not develop a selective bias in subject areas. Students will recall information learned in the absence of an exam due to their overall lack of anxiety.
I found many tips helpful in this module; to let students vent, expect they may be experiencing something outside of the school environment which may contribute to their behaviors, ask them to explain a situation and solutions for improvement, expect cheating, one who cheats in other courses will most likely cheat in your course, and cheat on objective test so add in case studies and narratives to help divert student's who cheat.
