Even the most qualified and the best tutors may have a hard time controlling their classrooms. This is particularly true if they need to deal with bad student behaviors regularly.
While teachers may plan creative and fun lessons, the effort will go downhill without school behavior management systems.
Managing classrooms is one of the first and important steps to successful teaching. By incorporating the following strategies into a good behavior management system, you will be able to support students and other teachers in school:
1. Consider Positive Language
The native language will always reinforce wrong behaviors. Naturally, kids love doing the opposite of what they were told. Instead of creating a vicious cycle of behavior challenges, consider using positive language.
Usually, positive language makes students feel very respected, resulting in good behavior. Plus, the positive language encourages students to speak positively.
2. Give Immediate, Yet Subtle Corrections
When problems arise in class, you must address them immediately. Though stopping to teach so as to make corrections is counterintuitive to the goal of establishing a set of rules.
If possible, tutors need to choose a non-verbal cue to show demonstrated behaviors are out of bounds. This kind of subtle cue will prevent drawing attention to disruptive students.
3. Set a Clear Expectation
A student can present with challenging behavior because you didn’t explicitly teach or state the expected code of conduct. In fact, your student might get confused about what you expect from them, and this is true especially for disabled students.
A clear visual cue through pictures or posters and using inclusive language will help your students know what you expect from them. Plus, you may direct them to those expectations consistently and frequently.
4. Practice and Teach Coping Skills
Everyone needs to practice a healthy strategy to cope with stress and manage feelings. Basically, coping is not something people are born knowing how to deal with. Rather, it is something you learn by practicing.
It is also challenging for people to learn new things, especially when they’re furious, distracted, or tied. Ensure you practice and teach new coping skills when all your students are calm rather than in the heat of the moment.
5. Acknowledge Efforts
Telling kids you are happy and proud of them is something every kid wants to hear. When you praise kids while maintaining a good tone, it will make them change their behavior.
Plus, letting students know that they did something great will make them want to do more. It is also a perfect way to leverage the attention that many kids with behavioral issues crave.
6. Build a Rapport
Respected and well-liked teachers are less likely to deal with discipline problems than tutors who are not. These qualities don’t just happen.
You must earn them with time by respecting every student. Once you establish this reputation, your job in behavior management will be easier.
Closing Remarks!
Any student might have a behavioral concern at any time. However, attending school after the global pandemic, Covid-19, comes with many and unique challenges.
In this situation, the right thing to do is reach out to parents and other experienced tutors for advice, not just in terms of developing solutions for students but also to give them support.
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