Problem:
First Analysis
Select two or more of the case studies. Before studying the text, how would you analyze the case study? In your analysis, consider why the students may be choosing to behave inappropriately and how you might intervene to influence them to stop the disruptive behavior and resume appropriate on-task behavior. Need Assignment Help?
Elementary School Case Studies
"It makes me look cool."
I can't stop thinking about a problem I'm having in class with a group of 12-year-old boys. They consistently use vulgar language to one another and to some of the shy kids in the class, especially the girls. In addition, they are always pushing and shoving one another. I've tried talking to them about why they keep using bad language when they know it's inappropriate. The response I get is that "it makes me look cool and funny in front of my friends." I have asked them to please use more appropriate language in the classroom, but that has not worked. I haven't even started to deal with the pushing and shoving. What should I do?
"My parents will be gone all weekend."
One of my seventh-grade girls was passing notes to a boy two rows over. After the second note, I made eye contact with her and it stopped for about half an hour. When I saw her getting ready to pass another note, I went over to her desk, asked her to give me the note, and told her that the note passing had to stop. She looked very upset, but she did give me the note. I folded it and put it in my desk drawer. When class ended, she ran out of the room crying. My personal policy is not to read students' notes but, instead, to give them back to the student at the end of class or throw them away. However, this time, maybe because of her reaction, something told me to read the note. It said, "Mike, my parents will be away Saturday. Why don't you and John sleep over? It will be fun. I promise I'll do whatever you want me to do and that you and John can do anything you want to me." What should I as the teacher do?