The Importance Of Student Misbehavior

Introduction

“Prevention is better than cure” This is one of the most famous proverbs which is related

to us in our everyday life. It teaches us to maintain a healthy, disciplined, and tension free

lifestyle in order to remain away from any health issues or diseases. It is easy to follow

prevention methods and to be safe from any problem. However cure is a while dangerous

for our health as it does not give surety of complete wellness once we get suffered from

some problems. Like that the best way to deal with discipline problems in schools is to

prevent them from happening in the first place - Marzano (2003). It is a lot more

comfortable for us to prevent the problem from happening than solving it when it is

aggravated.

Student misbehavior

INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES

For most of the teachers, dealing with student misbehaviour in the classroom takes up a

considerable amount of teaching time, which in turn affects the quality of the student’s

learning experience. There are various strategies that can be used to deal with students’

behaviour in the learning environment. However, a teacher must bear in mind that the

problems related to misbehaviour is very common in class rooms and the success of a

teacher depends on how to emulate and effective strategy to address the problem. Once

the problems are assorted, it would prove easier to evolve strategies as remedial

measures. Each and every aspect of the student must be taken into consideration while

formulating the strategies. The teacher, before addressing the misbehaving students,

should develop an optimistic attitude towards it.

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WHAT ARE THE INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES THAT YOU CAN USE IN

ORDER TO AVOID CLASSROOM MISBEHAVIOUR?

1. Establish reasonable rules and procedures

To avoid misbehaviour in the classroom teacher should establish a clear rules and procedures

for the students to follow in the classroom. Students know what to expect and

Make her clean the desk would be a relevant,

realistic, and respectful logical consequence. Having her miss recess would be irrelevant.

Making her clean all the desk in the classroom after session would be an unrealistic

amount of work, and the uncleanness of the other desks would be unrelated to her

mistake. Telling her like “You’re so rude, you don’t care about others but yourself!”

would be a disrespectful attack on her character.

4. Provide structure and routine

"Routines are the backbone of daily classroom life. They facilitate teaching and learning.

Routines don’t just make your life easier, they save valuable classroom time. And what’s

most important, efficient routines make it easier for students to learn and achieve more."

Linda Shalaway (n.d). Providing a good structure and routine helps the children

understand what the teacher and others are expecting from them.

Providing structure and routing in the classroom maximizes students’ learning

opportunities. Avoid classroom distractions and overall classroom atmosphere would be

more pleasant. Students will respond positively to structure, especially those students

who do not have any structure and routing in their home environment. A