1. ATTENTION--Encourage positive behavior through rewarding the good behaving students with my time or "commendable behavior" reports (certificate like acknowledgements implemented through the school). Talk to students who constantly act out negatively for my attention to ask them why they are acting they way they are and how to create a more positive relationship. Explain to them what negative contributions versus positive contributions look like and how they affect me, other students and themselves. Emphasize and give compliments for positive behavior.
2. CONTROL--Seek out and assign responsibilities to students where they can demonstrate leadership skills. If you are in a conflict of control, never engage and alway diffuse. I usually ask if the student is finished (yelling, venting) or gently let them know that I want to talk to them but only when they are calm, then give them options to cool down. Explain to the student that my goal is to help them be successful in the classroom so any expectation I have of them is because I know they are capable of doing it, not because I want to tell them what to do.
3. BOREDOM--Differentiate learning with a variety of activities. Ask students what they would want to do in the classroom to make it "fun." Find opportunities to connect the classroom to the community (i.e. museum, library, park).
4. INADEQUACY--Continue to assess student's progress. Differentiate learning and create assignments based on student's needs. Assess and commend students on an individual level and point out progress of each student from where they each started, not at where they all have to be.
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