Hi! Any teachers here? What are discipline problems in your class?

Question

What causes discipline problems? How to deal with them?

Answer 1

The most important thingto remember is that when you get to shouting, you've got knowhere left to go. You need to save the shouting for serious situations and to let them know that you are really annoyed. You need to ber patient and explain why you are unhappy, but dont be afraid to get mad when its needed.

Answer 2

I'm in a situation where I teach English to children who have little English knowledge. I have one class with 3 young girls that all have very strong, dominant personalities. They get along with each other, but they also like to take control of the class, and it becomes quite unproductive. My options for discipline are very limited, as I'm not a regular public school teacher. I'm an English conversation teacher. However, a lot of my problems are resolved through patience. If they aren't listening, I just keep being persistent and use a firm tone. This usually works. However, one time, they were getting completely out of hand, so I did have to raise my voice. I didn't shout, but they were very surprised. I'm an easygoing guy normally, but they realised I meant business, and they spent the rest of the class being very, very good! We finished with a fun game, which they really enjoyed. Things have been better since then.

Answer 3

On Day 1, I let the students know what kind of behavior I expect for the entire school year! Yeah, some of them call me a "*#$%^" under their breath, but I don't care.

I've taught in different school settings except private ones, but the result is the same...low to no discipline problems.

Another thing, I try to be "firm, but fair"--that's REALLY important if you teach for an urban school district. Suburban children can be "mouthy" too, but to a lesser extent...it's the parents you have to watch--they can be "sue happy".

Last but not least, make sure you keep accurate student behavior records (date, time, period, what was said, resulting action). No offense, but students lie. Don't get yourself into a heap of trouble. I'm not forcing you to join a teachers' union, but I'm a part of one.

With that said, I can definitely say that I enjoy teaching!

Answer 4

This is my first year teaching my own class and I was surprise that I am not having as many problems as I thought I would. Yesterday, though, I made a huge mistake and it will probably cost me the relationship with one of my best students. I work in a high school in a very urban and economically challenged area of Philadelphia, and the students can get "mouthy". For the past week one of my students has been making nasty comments back to me and I had pulled him out of class and asked him to stop and threatened to call his parent. This is what you are taught at school, never approach a student in front of other students. He acted as though he had no idea what I was talking about. The next day he started up again and I just lost it.... I called his parents in the middle of class and left a message. He was so angry that he started cursing towards me but not directly at me.... I really didn't want to write him up because he is a good kid but he was just showing off... He just kept it up until he got up and walked out of my class. I just felt and still feel awlful. I wish I would have waited until after class. The way he spoke was just heartbreaking... and I know that I can't take it personal but it is really hard not to .... I hope has answered your question... My advice is to breath and take care of things after you have had a chance to cool off.

Answer 5

I'm currently teaching adults, so I have almost no discipline problems, apart from missing lessons without telling me and handing homework in late sometimes. As most if not all of my students have children etc, I've dealt with it (on the advice on my bosses) by being understanding but persistant. e.g. you didn't hand in the homework last lesson. Did you have any problems with it? Can you do it by next week? Or, where were you last week, X? Is everything ok? I then let my bosses know if students have missed a few weeks of lessons and they chase them up for me!

In my previous colleges, I was teaching 16-21ish year olds, so the discipline problems I had were the usual:

1. Chatting on their mobiles/sending texts under the tables instead of doing classroom activities.

2. Reading the newspaper instead of listening to me.

3. Chatting to the person next to them while I was talking or another student was contributing to class discussions.

4. Some (but thank god, not many) students had a habit of wandering in late without an apology and walked out of the classroom for various reasons etc without letting me know first.

5. Eating and drinking in class.

6. Missing lessons without informing the college.

7. Dominating students-some students were very keen to answer my questions but no-one else got a look in.

8. Finally, listening to their ipods etc and arguing with me when I asked the students to remove them.

How did I deal with these issues? When I first got into teaching, I let them get on with it because I was too scared to confront them. Later on, I got into a slanging match with the whole class about my right to confisticate their phones. Later still, I sent them to other teachers. Later still, I burst into tears and walked out on them. Later still, I lost it completely and had gave them a big lecture on how hard I was working to make the lessons more interesting for them but they were taking the mickey out of me. More recently, I've developed a slightly thicker skinned, so responses include:

Persistence
firmness
consistency
sorting things out away from the other students on an invidual basis. e.g. i don't care want X does. In my lesson, I don't allow students to listen to music in class. etc.

Answer 6

With 16 year olds I would wait till break and then ask them if this was their way of telling me that they did not wish to study my subject after all and I would not be offended if they wanted to drop the class. If it continued in the behaviour (which was rare) I would would inform them that I did not wish them to attend for the next x number of classes and that they should obtain copies of any work missed from one of their friends (incidentally I had a great head of dept who would have always backed me up if I had need it). By the age of 17 they have usually grown up enough not to give you problems. Over 18's they are there because they want to be and i never had any difficulties with them; I always laid down the ground rules in the first session regarding attendence , punctuality etc and gve them the colleges number/ext to phone if they were unable to make it for any reason. I also pointed out that I needed to be able to explain to my boss why someone was not able to attend (though they did not) and that was usually enough. Good luck and have fun with your teaching - I did and loved it.

Answer 7

It varies from class to class and student to student. Discipline problems. Generally speaking most problems arise from students who are more focused on their social life rather than their academic work.

Answer 8

The dicipline problems start a home or the lack thereof !

Answer 9

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