How to discipline a disruptive student?

Chile
March 2, 2013 2:37am CST
I am a new teacher, and I am soft spoken and too good to laugh, but I love teaching. I havent had a good experience with the students that have bad manners and do not want to listen to the teacher,me. Sometimes when I start the class the good students make me laugh and the others feel with right to talk and not shut the mouth when I start the class.
4 responses
• Philippines
2 Mar 13
DO corporal punishment??? hahaha Just kidding of course. I have experienced teaching almost all types of students and adults. I tutored at a very early age. We had practice teaching before in various schools and I have tried teaching both in private schools and public schools. Then for some reason I always get to be stucked with those classes in two opposite poles. I would teach the pilot section and at the same time I also hold classes on the lower sections. When I quit teaching, I was thrown in the Training Department of our company and thus, I have to deal with various kind of people everyday. I had tried teaching Japanese and until now I'm still teaching on weekends. I don't mind laughing with my students as anxiety would always hinder learning. The thing is you have to draw the line. Set up the rule that a class should be a class with respect. As per students with bad manners. I handle them differently. I try to observe the students likes, dislikes and weaknesses and strengths. Then with such information, I would create activities in class that would force them to participate. Hahaha. I have handled students who wouldn't also cooperate no matter what you do. They just simply go to school for the allowance. With such students, I try to talk to them heart to heart or sometimes once I see that one is not paying attention, I would try to give more emphasis and volume up my voice. If it still doesn't work, I would stop talking then just look at whoever is creating the noise. With those who are really really a pain in the neck I warn them and still after three warnings and they are still unruly (cause I had these class before whose students would gamble inside the classroom and would suddenly just create a ruckus while in the middle of the discussion), I talk to their adviser. If I am already the adviser, then I escalate the issue to the guidance counselor.
• Philippines
9 Mar 13
Cellphones are not allowed in our school and so I didn't have that issue. When I worked in the Training Department though, I would confiscate their cellphone. I don't know if it's allowed in your school but that's what I do. Or maybe you can call those students who are noisy or unruly and give them responsibilities. Everything would really just depend on what students you have and the environment I guess.
• Chile
8 Mar 13
I do not know how to give volume to my voice I have tried but I yell and it is a real problem my soft voice. The unruly students take advantage of that and started chatting between them or checking their cellphones,oh no it was so frustrating
@Mavic123456 (21898)
• Thailand
2 Mar 13
wow congratulations to the our field. and teaching is such a rewarding job. very tiring very theatrical very animated but never boring and always exciting. Noisy class .. I stand in the middle and just keep quiet and look at them. then let them realized that I am staring at them... (this is a resting time for you too, your voice box and your brain) i don't shout "quiet" at them. I just keep myself quiet. I like using a microphone because I like them hear themselves as they speak. Since I am using a microphone, sometimes I sing. but very mellow opening. Like... "I am beautiful..., Hero, and many more what ever is in my Last song syndrome" this is just to calm myself too. (I am beautiful
• Chile
8 Mar 13
oh how nice of you tosing well because I am not a good singer, I am out of tune all the time. I like the idea of using the microphone, the kids in the last row do not hear me. fatastic ideas, thanks
@Mavic123456 (21898)
• Thailand
8 Mar 13
not a good singer as well. but it surely catch their attention. Another way I forgot to mention is that, I call on those disruptive students. have them stand and ask me to assist me in anyway. Most of the time they are bored. Since I teach language, I ask them to stand in front to point, the object I am referring to. Sometimes I just whisper to them what I want to tell and they tell the whole class what I was telling. for example vocabulary. That way I don't need to exert so much effort to speak loud. and the disruption is stopped right there no one is starting it because they are busy saying in front of the class what I am saying. If words are mispronounced I just have it correct it by pronouncing it in the class. Very effective and students are having fun. if I have two or three disruptive students. One, say the word in English while pointing on the photo. The other one saying it in Thai vocabulary or the equivalent word in Thai and the other one is acting on it. whew.. a reliever .
@maximax8 (31053)
• United Kingdom
3 Mar 13
I am a primary school teacher. I believe in catching them being good and then giving praise to hopefully build the self esteem. In one school I taught at they wanted a Golden Time on Friday afternoon. I could take off for children that had bad behavior earlier in the week. I kept the difficult one in at playtime to try to say be good. Good luck.
• United States
3 Mar 13
Definitely noticing the students that are doing the right thing works very well for the younger grades. I always call out the ones that are doing what I want and you will see the others look at that student and try to copy them. It really does work.
@Renhard (3471)
• Jamaica
8 Mar 13
Well I had a teacher who had the perfect students in class. These same students are the most disruptive in other class and overall and it is because he disciplined them from early. Well i think it really depends on the age of the students. What my teacher did was to stop teaching every time he got disturb. It would affect everybody because he would just stay there silent. Then when the class calmed down he would really embarrass the person who disrupted the class. And you know everybody in the class wanted to laugh but if they did he would send them out. No matter how bright he or she is. So he established that he wont stand for any slackness. We could talk to him about anything, he was cool but in class he became such a different individual everyone was serious for his class. It was the only class that every single person was scared to talk if it is not related to the lesson. The only class that people was afraid to step in if they have not read the last notes. If one person disrupts the class everyone would be affected so everyone would get really upset if another person disrupts the class. It all boils down to everyone being perfect. The teacher was never afraid to tell his part of mind (bad side when something goes wrong). Describing him would make him seem like he was the worst teacher ever, but being in his class or being around him proved he was the best teacher ever with the one of the best strategy for getting success in his class. He dealt with perfection so there was nothing known as a partial answer to any questions at all. Its either you have the full answer or no answer. Leaving a line or a number off the answer would get him so upset, that he would embarrass you again. The thing about it is that he did it with everyone. As far as I remembered every single person in that class got embarrassed before. So embarrassed that we didn't have the mood to socialize with the rest of the day. As a recap my teacher disciplined his disruptive students by: 1)being bold 2)being serious 3)stop teaching which would affect everyone thus everyone saw how serious he was 4)embarrassing those who disrupt and those who laugh at the the students who disrupt. 5)Still provide support for everyone who needs help, just talk to him. 6)Telling the students how serious life is and what it actually means to pass his subject. (This lecture didn't come frequently. Maybe once a month or twice) Everything combine would remove the disruptive student totally. Sorry this was so long.