Mistaken behavior and misbehavior are two terms that are often misunderstood. I want to explain that having an understanding of developmentally appropriate practices and how that can help teachers guide young children. Children need love, encouragement, approval, and kind words, which reinforce good behavior.
Mistaken behavior has three levels, which are experimentation, socially influence and strong needs. Mistaken behavior is an action that is done by one unwillingly. This behavior is how people learn and should not be punished for it but should be taught and led the right way. Many children go through this at home or in school people automatically assume that the children know when in fact they do not always know what is best and why something
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should not be done. What one person considers wrong could be what another was taught to be right. Children are not little adults and do not act the way they do on purpose there is always a reason behind their actions and we have to understand that children do not have the same mind that we do they do not understand what we are thinking so we have to work with them; not necessarily tell them but show them. Misbehavior is defined by acting improper or inappropriate.
Misbehavior is when someone does something they are supposed to knowing they should not because they were taught differently. Often “misbehavior” occurs because the child is hungry, tired, discouraged, and feel rejected. Children often feel hurt or angry when they misbehave it can be due to the fact of what is going on at home. Point being many children who misbehave have a reason and it is important for us to get to know what is going on and ease in with the child and work together to solve the problem. I personally would say a child does not misbehave compared to a child who is seven doing wrong when they know they are not supposed to act a certain …show more content…
way. Misbehavior and mistaken behavior always have a reason and is not because they wake up and decide, “I am going to be bad today”. Misbehavior and mistaken behavior are behaviors that get mixed up and adults seem to forget that there is a difference. If it were my point of view I would see mistaken behavior for children and misbehavior for adults. I personally believe that some adults are not fully aware but that is not an excuse; as for children they do not know how to express themselves at times and may not be getting the attention they need. Children have learned what hey know from their home or from their surroundings as Benjamin Franklin said “tell me and I will forget, teach me and I may remember. Involve me and I learn.” Misbehavior and mistaken behavior have similarities but the biggest similarity is they are often confused. The value of having an understanding of developmentally appropriate practices are that with time teacher will learn to work with children and not just give commands; children learn by example and are often looking for someone to follow.
Teachers can work with the children and get to know what it is that is causing certain behavior and can help children in the long run. Children can be going through changes or issues at home and if they are going from problems at home to getting scolded or being put on time put at school it can cause long term damage. Children will feel as if they are always alone and would not know who to go to at the end of the day. Children need to be guided and the teacher can help that child and communicate with the parents about the differences between misbehavior and mistaken behavior. If what is being taught at home is different from what is being taught at school can cause complications to the child and their thought process. I feel that teachers would benefit from knowing the difference and going through certain classes just so they can learn the difference and how to work with children rather than dealing with them. With time, communication and understanding the child will start becoming aware and realize what is right even if they have to try for their own as long as it is not causing any danger to
anyone. I want to explain why I feel that it is important for a teacher to have a complete understanding of the situation. My daughter is two and she often trikes things but while I look at her I realize it is a lot of things that I do or have done. I work full time and I am a full time student so unfortunately I am not around my daughter many hours of the day. I look at my daughter and I see she does things that I do not approve of and would not want her doing for the simple fact because I think it is wrong and not respectful; she is two but she is really smart and at her age her brain is a sponge and observing everything she sees. One example is hitting, my daughter spends a lot of time with sister in-law and my niece who is also two; my niece has a habit of fighting and saying “shh” to her mom because that is how they play. When I go home and I am talking to my daughter and she tells me “no, shh” my family thinks that is funny but I explain to my daughter that is not nice and we do not say that to anyone. My point being I have not been with my daughter because of work and school so I have to understand that she is going to pick up habits from other and it is up to me to show her and talk to others with respect. I am planning on putting my daughter in head start so it is important to me that the teachers understand my daughter is not misbehaving but she is acting on what she has seen. It is not her fault so I want them to show her and lead her to what is the “right” way to do things while she is in class and I will show her when she is at home. Parents and teachers can benefit from misbehavior and mistaken behavior. It is up to us as adults to work with the children and show them that we care and are not going to just get angry all the time. If a child deals with an adult who they sense has no patience it is going to be a tough situation to come out of because the child is going to shut out that person and continue doing what they were told not to do. When you tell a child “do not do this” they are going to want to do it because that is them experimenting and wanting to see what is going to happen.
There are many causes on why a child or teenager may misbehave. There could be issues at home, with family, other kids, peer pressure, and the list goes on. This can affect family, friends and their own lives in a negative way. “Understanding why children engage in bad behavior is critical to curbing it”, illustrates Harvey Karp, M.D, a pediatrician and author of the book and DVD “The Happiest Toddler On The Block”. In that case, there is a lot to be learned about the cause of misbehavior.
One aspect I believe all schools should have is the element of safety at school. A student cannot efficiently learn without first feeling safe. In Joan Lipsitz and Teri West’s What Makes a Good School? they say, “In high-performing schools, the adults work together to provide a web of emotional and social support for the students, not just in the services the school provides but in the attitudes and relationships the adults establish with students” (Lipsitz & West, 2006 p. 83). Schools should not only provide services such as counseling, or food to take home to support their mental and physical safety, but ensure that the teachers employed at the school are making meaningful relationships with the students so they feel safe within the classroom. Another common theme seemed to be the idea of teachers working together, which I think is a great idea as someone who is a future teacher. In the article Piece by Piece: How Schools Solved the Achievement Puzzle and Soared, Karin Chenoweth states, “The point of teacher collaboration is to improve instruction for students and to ensure that all students learn” (Chenoweth, 2009 p. 116). Other than all the schooling that teachers receive a major way of how they learn to teach is through their own experience. Sharing experiences with other teachers can help to modify lessons, or to share out ideas that will better prepare a teacher for their own class. Thus ensuring that students get an education that has been improved upon to become even more beneficial to
Initially, I define the two concepts of mistaken behavior and misbehavior, the first as an error in judgment and action made in the process of learning life skills. Mistaken behaviors occur at three levels which are: experimentation, socially influenced, and strong unmet needs. Teachers who use guidance see self-ruled life skills as difficult to learn, and they recognize that children are just at the beginning stages of a lifelong process of learning these skills. In the process of learning any difficult skill, children, like all of us, make mistakes. These teachers recognize that when children experiences conflicts it is because they have not yet developed the cognitive and emotional resources for more mature responses. The second concept being misbehavior is the conventional term applied to conflicts that the child is involved in, resulting in consequences that often include punishment and the internalization of a negative label such a “naughty”. The complexity of teaching self-ruled life skills leads some adults to the misconception that young children know how to behave, they just choose to misbehave. When conflicts occur, teacher who focus on misbehavior tend to label the child’s character and attempt to shame the child into better behavior.
...tle to no time for teachers to help students one on one. Then by taking away from adolescents exposed to bad influences, they can concentrate more on that essay for English or the lab in Chemistry.
Creating ways to handle problems with guidance approach are very much like a journey to me. Teachers practice guidance when they help children to learn from their mistakes, rather than punish them for mistake they make, and it should not be considered as misbehaviour, but as mistaken behaviour. This reminds us that Child is just at the beginning of a lifelong learning process. At this stage we all make mistakes. Mistaken behaviour is made up of three different levels which in themselves explain each level in the learning process as they lack the experience and interaction to know the difference and therefore make errors in judgement in their actions. The three levels
Children do not know any better than to follow the actions of what they see other people doing.
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Children behave the way they see fit. If a child lives in an unstable home where his/her parents
Children go to school for seven hours a day, when teachers make them do homework it causes them to get stressed. Furthermore if children understand what they learned at school why do they need to repeat it at home? If children are struggling on a certain subject, teachers should be able to help them directly, not with homework because giving them homework on something they don't know anything about is counterproductive. Instead private tutoring could be something schools provide for failing students and not homework.
In today’s society children are faced with many factors that can influence their behaviour within a care or educational setting. These factors can sometimes enhance a child’s behaviour and in some cases impair or damage how a child learns behaviour.
Noncompliance with instructions is one of the most pervasive childhood problems for which professional help or behavioral treatment is sought. (Bernal, Klinnert, & Schultz, 1980; Miles & Wilder, 2009). Noncompliance is defined as the failure to follow an instruction within a specified time period. Noncompliance with instructions is common in preschool settings (Crowther, Bond, & Rolf, 1981) with prevalence of noncompliance among children estimated to be between 8% and 65% (Kalb & Loeber, 2003; Rodriguez, Thompson, & Baynham, 2010).
Teachers have to be aware of what is going on in the lives of their students. Everyday students go home to diverse issues and circumstances that affect the way they learn in the classroom. Part of their role as a teacher is to be able to help students balance and cope with both home and school life. For example, when I was at Perkins Tryon Elementary school a student in one of the 2nd grade classes parents were going through a divorce. The student was extremely upset about the issue; he wanted to see his dad more often but the divorce only allowed him to see his dad on the weekends. The 2nd grade teacher would do small things like giving the student hugs, making checklist to count down the days he could see his dad, and she would try her best to make him feels comfortable at school. No only do teachers need to keeps close connections with the students, they must,
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I have decided to become a teacher because I love children. I enjoy watching them grow, and I want to make a difference in the lives of my students. As a teacher, I will do everything that I can to ensure that each becomes a productive, successful citizen in life. In order for me to obtain this goal, I will create a loving, positive, respectful, and safe learning environment where each student will be treated equally and be encouraged to do his or her best. Keeping this in mind, there are four elements that I must remember which includes (1) how young children develop, (2) what they should know and be able to do, (3) instructional strategies that I have learned, and (4) my feelings regarding parent involvement.
A teacher holds the key to knowledge, success, and fun. Every child deserves a teacher that understands and accommodates different