What should be done with disruptive students? We often call as naughty students. They are regarded as the trouble makers in the class, but wait...! The naughty does not mean they know nothing about subject that we teach. The naughty has become natural behavior for school age children. They are on the phase of seeking attention or attention seekers who might seem the disruptive behavior during the learning process, in no matter they are trying to get a laugh from other students in the classroom. We surely may feel their attitude is quite disturbed but that is not always the case. We may find some tricks to overturn their disruptive behavior and keep the learning process moving as good as possible. It may take a serious effort to prevent this disruptive behavior in the class.
In the middle of dealing with naughty students, we are tested with patience. Here, we must be acting the real teacher and showing them our gently side. We must calm when we warn our students, shouting out will create a new problem within you and student. Before dealing with this such of student, make sure we know his real character so that we can make them comfortable talking with us. Any students who feel embarrassed when such of these issues are discussed, so if possible talk with them privately. Definitely, we were equipped with particular skill to handle this problem to particular student. A chance to fix this behavior become our daily job at school. So, we need several techniques to apply to these students.
Behavior Contract
When we find the serious case of naughty students, we sometime lose our control to remind them stop acting like that. Talking with them is enough to decrease their misbehavior. It come all the way that they still ignore our command or our advice. Their peers are felt uncomfortable with their naughty friend that may cause ineffective teaching learning. We know who cause it. So, we must call out to private room and make a behavior contract with the consequences if they repeatedly disturb the class.
Use Non Verbal Cues
When we find out the student begin to show their naughtiness. We may start with serious action to make eye contact to have his/her attention without involving whole class students. Trying to not embarrass them in front of their peer. If these students still disturb the class. Eyes contact is not working, call them in front of the class as the last way we make them calm.
Use Authoritative Statements
Normally, the naughty students are not just once accepted our remark. They still continue doing this act and definitely make us lose the patience, but we have to control as much as possible. We may not show our anger to our student if want them change. Our emotional control is a pattern of stirring the class and a supreme behavior of teacher. We must find the right way to use the statement that we are not drawn into argument with disruptive students. Avoiding to shout out that may cause a small altercation and will further create the disturbing teaching-learning process. We must come with simply statement "Please respect your friend and continue working quietly."
Discuss this Issue with our College
In order to stop this behavior, we may need our partner help. We usually discuss with counselling teachers and encourage them to see the real problem during teaching learning. This technique we use if we unsure of what else to do if the behaviors have escalated, but before we ask our partner help, we must make sure we have some documentation to give and showing them what have been dealing with.
Call their Parents
Teacher can not work alone, in directing student to have good behavior we must conduct a conference with their parents if we found their behavior still unchanged. Again, we need a valid data such as time, date, day and action that we have taken. These proofs show our seriousness dealing with their kids and as the expectation that this situation will be no longer happened.
Conclusion
Naughty students are regarded as attention seekers and some of them may be overreacted that need our immediate response. As the teacher we have been trained to breakdown this case to let our classroom management work on our plan. In doing so, we must be capable of understanding logic and reason why they become disruptive students or annoying behavior. We also need know much information about their background so we can easily identify the major cause that influence their behavior. As a teacher, it has become our professional activity to support student learning while giving good care to whole student but these students strongly need our special care.
