Synopsis of
a Workshop
on
Student’s Behaviour Management-Part 1
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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 educatuor.Was it:
1.
Increase in class size,
2.
Incompatibility with
co-teachers,
3.
Staying current with the
latest curriculam & having to “teach
to the test”,
4.
Expanding duties being placed
on teachers, or
5.
Problems with managing student’s behavior.
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: Enthusastic,
Stage 2: Helpless,
Stage: Resentful,
Stage 4: Motivator.
Stage
1: Enthusastic New Teacher
This is when a person enters teaching
profession. She/he is definitely slightly nervous but will be optimistic. With
memeories 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: HelplessTeacher
However, slowely and slowely the students
start showing their true colors and our shiny new teacher finds it virtually
impossible to control them. ’Honeymoon‘period is over and attemts to reason
with students have no impact. Our ‘Enthusastic 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 studenst?
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
discilipned 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 favor with bullies.
On the threshold of being 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 behavior the teacher becomes resenful
towards way ward students
Mentality of Resentful Teacher:
Punish students who irritate.
When light penalties fail to change the behavior, impose stricter
penalities.
But; does it work?
Here is an important behavior changing
principle to keep in mind:
When good behavior is rewarded,
we get more of good behavior.
But; when bad behavior is punished,
do we get more or less of bad behavior?
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 we 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 behavior and
what needs to be done to control this behavior formed second part of the
workshop.
The same will be presented in Part-2 of this blog.
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)
Sarwan Singh
(M) 91- 88666 80407
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