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One way to make classrooms safer

Filed Under "At-risk" students, Blogging in and out of the Classroom, SOS for Teachers, The Way I See It 

I’ve been thinking a lot about how to make classrooms safer for teachers and kids. I think it would help if teachers got more training about managing kids in ways that didn’t bring the worst out of kids. Teachers don’t get get much training in this area. I have my special ed specialist in behaviour management, and I feel could use more training on how t0 deal with some of the disturbed kids we get in schools. I know we’re teachers and not members of an emergency task force, but still we have to deal with all kinds of kids with all kinds of problems so we’d better know what to do that works or at least doesn’t make the situation worse.

I’m not saying that more training would be a magic wand and make the problems go away, but I do think more training to help us deal better with the disturbed kids we have in our classes would help. I’ve observed classrooms were the primary management strategy was it’s -my-way-or-the-highway. Well, the my-way -or-the-highway approach does not work with kids today. It might have in another time and another place, but not here and now. This power trip approach causes all kinds of problems. Let’s just say it. Some teachers are bullies. It’s a simple a that. I’ve seen what happens in classes where teachers have this approach. Students sit there seething with resentment and plot on how to get even. Unfortunately they go to their next class still seething and plotting , and the next teacher wonders what in the world is wrong with this kid. It’s a teenager’s “job” to rebel against authority, so of course some kids at some times aren’t going to do what we ask the first time we ask it. But, teachers don’t need to make things worse by using ineffective approaches because they don’t know any better or because they won’t change their management strategies or style. Learning how to deal with the troubled, troublesome and troubling kids we have in our classroom is in our best interest. The kids aren’t going away and we are the adults.

 
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2 Responses to “One way to make classrooms safer”

  1. Frank on April 10th, 2007 5:13 am

    I agree with that thought. Being aware of the dangers that might happen is a good thing that ever teacher must possess. Precaution is necessary foreverybody’s safety.

  2. Geri on April 10th, 2007 8:47 pm

    It’s a huge responsibility to watch over several students .Proper management tools for keeping them safe for everybody’s sake is necessary. I think that every teacher has this responsibility

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