Synopsis of a Workshop
on Student’s Behaviour
Management-Part 1
Recently I conducted a
workshop on ‘Student’s Behaviour Management’ in an Ayurved Medical College. Following is
the synopsis of this workshop:
The workshop opened with
watching a video clip titled ‘I am a Teacher’. Please visit the link http://bit.ly/1weYSbi to watch this video clip.
Following this, the
participants (who are lecturers and professors in this college) to think back
to their school days about:
1: The
classrooms where they felt safe, accepted, and valued. To bring to
their minds those teachers who inspired them to put in their best
efforts. Participants were further requested to write at least
3 traits or qualities about these teachers who inspired and motivated them.
2: Participants were
also requested to write three traits or qualities of those teachers or
bosses
who made them feel fearful unappreciated, resentful, or discouraged at any time
in their career.
This was followed by a
discussion on what the participants feel is the biggest threat to their career
as an educator. Was it:
1. Increase in class size,
2. Incompatibility with
co-teachers,
3. Staying current with the
latest curriculum & having to “teach to the test”,
4. Expanding duties being
placed on teachers, or
5. Problems with managing
student’s behaviour.
Four Stages of
Teaching
After this a discussion
took place on various stages of life as a teacher. It was discussed that there
are essentially four stages in life of a teacher.
Stage 1: Enthusiastic,
Stage 2: Helpless,
Stage: Resentful,
Stage 4: Motivator.
Stage 1:
Enthusiastic New Teacher
This is when a person
enters teaching profession. She/he is definitely slightly nervous but will be
optimistic. With memories of good and bad teachers still fresh in the memory, the new
entrant enters with the determination to be like the teacher she/he
admired and never to use traits of the teacher she/he disliked.
Stage 2: Helpless Teacher
However, slowly and slowly the
students start showing their true colours and our shiny
new teacher finds it virtually impossible to control them.
’Honeymoon‘period is over and attempts to reason with students
have no impact. Our ‘Enthusiastic New Teacher’ now starts feeling Helpless. She/he starts feeling
more and more disillusioned and disoriented.
But what is the effect
of stage 2 teachers on their students?
This is a very serious
stage when the new teacher starts to lose will to control the class and just
starts to swim with the tide. However, this attitude has a very serious impact
on disciplined or
borderline students; as described below:
Many students, lacking
self-discipline, misbehave just because they can do so.
Well-behaved students are
placed in a difficult situation. They want to
learn, but compliance with a teacher unable to manage the class places them at
a lower status than the non-respected teacher. Being in that lowly position
sets them up for victimization by bullies (just as the
teacher experiences). Many potential “model students”
misbehave in order to gain favour with bullies.
On the threshold of being
from
helpless teacher to
resentful teacher
Stage
3: Resentful Teacher
The hurtful teacher now
starts feeling that she/ he has lost the will to control the class. Hence;
instead of finding out how to control the class behaviour the teacher
becomes resentful towards
way ward students
Mentality of Resentful
Teacher:
Punish students who
irritate. When light penalties fail to change the behaviour, impose
stricter penalties.
Here is an important behaviour changing
principle to keep in mind:
When good behaviour is rewarded, we get more of good behaviour.
But; when bad behaviour is punished, do we get more or less of bad behaviour?
The answer
we all know is that we get more of bad behaviour.
Therefore; does the
answer to Student’s behaviour control lie in punishing
bad behaviour till they fall in line or somewhere else?
Obviously, the answer
lies somewhere else.
Before discussing how a teacher can move from stage 3 (Resentful) to Stage 4 (Motivator) a video clip of Zig
Ziglar (Attitude Makes the Difference) was shown.
This brought us to the
close of Session 1 of the workshop.
What is the root cause
of the poor student’s bad behaviour and what needs to be done to
control this behaviour formed second part of the workshop.
The same will be
presented in Part-2 of this blog.
Are you running an educational institute or an industry/company? Are you interested to get this and other such workshops conducted
in your institute?
Please write to me
at englishacademybaroda@gmail.com /sarwansingh6644@gmail.com or
call me (Sarwan Singh) at 91- 88666 80407.
Please also visit the
link http://slidesha.re/1vtxYuO (for educational institutes) and http://slidesha.re/YT9SPn (for
industries and companies) to know more about our programs. Some of our programs for educational institutes are pro-bono.
Sarwan Singh
(M) 91- 88666 80407
Acknowledgements:
Many
presentations/articles and video clips available on Slide Share, Author Stream,
You Tube and other sources on internet were studied and analysed for this workshop. The
presentation put together was a combination of inputs from such sources with my
own inputs. Hence, thanks are due to creators of all such inputs who I am
unable to acknowledge by name this time as their original work was deleted after study. All such sources will
be acknowledged in future.
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