Classroom Behavior
There are many reasons teachers are leaving the profession.
One of those reasons is classroom behavior…BOTH teacher and student behavior.
The pressures, demands, excessive expectations, negative and hostile culture in which many teachers and students find themselves these days are causing behavior in the classroom to also get out of control.
In a school district in Florida, a large group of teachers quit stating that student behavior was out of control and unbearable.
Since then, many prominent persons in the district, including the sheriff and local school board members have publicly stated their opinions about students in the district. These opinions have included many “childish” behaviors such as name calling and suggestions for “whipping students’ a****”.
As adults, we must be the role models for children, and this kind of behavior is just not acceptable.
Teaching is the hardest job there is nowadays!
So many critics and so little respect. Too many expectations and not enough support.
And being a kid is hard too with all the pressures from social media, high stakes testing and socio-economic challenges at home.
All of these pressures are playing out in the classroom and manifesting in extreme human behaviors like violence, insolence, aggression, belligerence and defiance stemming from human emotions such as anger, frustration, anxiety, depression, sadness, grief, fear, jealousy, rejection and especially an overwhelming feeling of not being or doing enough.
What can we do as teachers, as parents, as ADULTS to help turn this classroom behavior around from a negative to a positive? And YES…IT STARTS WITH US!!!
