#5 Classroom Management - Challenging Students & Composure | A Classroom Diva 

I was quiet and didn't misbehave at all but went to school with stains on my clothes I tried to hide, roaches in my purse/backpack, and not the best food at home. Got called profane names by my dad at times, yet I made very good grades. So, I wouldn't say it's a natural conclusion that kids who act out obviously have rough home lives. One of the most challenging kids I work with has a two-parent home with one parent as a social worker. He has the smoothest behavioral excuses for a kid his age.

I have so much respect for my teachers in the past... I was a difficult kid, but they were always there to support me and never lashed out or acted annoyed.

You telling me that you give your own food to your poor student. Kudos to you for being the unknown daily hero that almost nobody notice. I appretiate that even without knowing you personally

"Students that keep us on our toes with challenging behaviors." If you work with middle or high schoolers it's more like: "Students that keep us disturbed with wildly inappropriate behaviors."

I’m trying for work in me personally and professionally. I feel lost and I’m in therapy. This just lets me know I might need to just rethink life. I wanna be this certain type of person and I’m realizing through teaching I’m not. Thank you for this.

I mean! Everything about this video was so helpful 💜 you are great and I wish that all teachers think the same way.

Great way to summarize your classroom management strategies. Thanks for sharing.

You are so positive and nice, thank you. Im an newby English teacher from Russia. I have some difficult students, so now im going through this difficult times of building up the relationships with them. Thanks for support

This series has been very helpful. Classroom Management is something I have been striving to get better in this area since I am a 1st year after school program teacher. I will definitely be using these tips during the next school year. Thank you.

Thanks for sharing this series, it's super helpful! I recently started substituting so these tips will come in handy as the students test me daily. I realized that I really do take rude behavior personally so that's something I should definitely work on.

What you said under "Don't take it personally" are the things I have said to my child when he tells me stories of his classmates being difficult at school. Yes, the behaviour of difficult children is not usually respectful. However, we never know what the child is going through outside of school to trigger such behaviour. Thank you so much for this video.

I teach students from age 12 to 15, and this age is so difficult to deal with!!!! Im trying my best at taking control but today i lost my composure and now im regretting at how i behaved with the students, well im still new tho and each day i learn new things and how to deal with students, so thanks for the tips its really helpful

Thanks for the 5 strategies shared. I will definitely try them out

If only I could just give you one sweet hug because I am starting to melt . Here I am taking a mental look at My Life back in Elementary School back in around 1983 while I am watching you asking myself ( an autistic person who was once an autistic student ) what I really could have had more of in Elementary School because I really like it when one shows that much patience and openheartedness .

wow, very nice input! I've learned from your classroom management. Thank you:)

As a newly qualified primary teacher, this is SO useful 😃

Blessings to you for Sharing!

I'm a college professor. "don't take it personally" is important.

Thank you. That was such a nice informative video! I will surely follow your advice.

Every child is different. She is right when it comes to learning where the behavior is coming from. There are always situations where children act out due to being hungry, living in an abusive environment at home, or not knowing where he or she will even be sleeping that night. We are more than just teachers. Show the child you care and they will show you positive behavior.

Great tips, thank you so much. I agree with you, deep breathing is a great way to handle tough situations.

Idk i just wanna say I love you! I want to teach my student whole heartly as u do

I love this series. So many great tips! Thank you!

Loved this. You are quickly becoming my new favorite youtuber! So helpful!

I teach toddlers and recently three year olds as well and I understand sleep is very important but it is difficult to do when I am studying to obtain my cognitive studies degree.

What if you do all of this, but the student still smashes the windows in your classroom, laughs while doing it then throws glass at the teacher. Also, what if the parents are always drunk, high or beat their child? How do you build a relationship with the parents then?

Excellent video, thank you very much

Very helpful

Oh my!! I really needed these tips because everything I was doing was wrong!!! I used to rise my voice to get some difficult students attention because I was afraid of not having control. I mean some students are not interested in my class and now I see it was my fault I don't know what I'm going to do now but at least I have a clue where to start... Thanks a lot

Thank you this is so helpful!

Your tips sound very useful. Could you please explain more about helping kids to set goal and get reward? How can we start to talk about goal with kids? Where are the rewards come from? Teacher buy them?

I am a summer camp counselor for a daily summer camp not the overnight ones and usually what I do when a camper is having a meltdown or acting out or testing the counselor I remove them from the camp class that we use and walk them up and down the hall of the school and ask them exactly why they were acting this way and what sits on their mind and after a while they become calm and explain what is wrong and I help them work it out a bit and after they realize that it's ok to feel stressed or angry at something they are ready to get back into our class and continue our camp activities

This is a teacher that has been though the battlefield

I never got attention at home because my parents worked all the time and i was raised by nannies. Many times my nanny wouldn't have time to make me breakfast or lunch and i would eat my first meal when my mom would come home around 17 o'clock. But at school, my way of getting attention was to be the best! To always raise my hand when the teacher asks something, to get first into all the contests, to do all the extracurricular activities and to be praised. Interesting fact, why do some choose this way and some the other way?

You are awesome!!!

Can u please give me an example for students and teachers behaviour like "How students behaviour affect their relationship to their teacher"

How do you handle a students who consider themselves all knowing ?

What about middle school students

What would you adivise to do with a bratty student who hits his parents at home, and acts out at school? Plus the principal will not discipline this student, and the teacher of the student feels virtually helpless.

Great tips thanks

I totally agree

In regards to student/teacher relationships, There is a video by TEA that states that we ARE NOT to be friendly with students. To me, that means No relationships are ALLOWED. Can you elaborate on this? I've been a teacher for 1.5 years and NO ONE has been able to explicitly explain the code of ethics for teachers

THANK YOU!!

Graduating in the fall to teach elementary. Thank you for these videos

What do you do if you are a substitute and cannot make those bonds and relationships

I am teaching at a village where I have 38 students in one class. How do I handle those. All 5th Grade loud boys

It would be great to see videos of this in action, with short edited clips of the behaviors and how they change over the weeks with your responses to the student. But there is probably some policy about not filming children in classrooms?

Thanks a lot madam

Can you make a video practically showing those points in a real classroom

I feel calmer now. Sorry I punched the RU-vid screen.

Great

thank you mam I really got help with this video

There's a rule you forgot to mention...be good looking. Humans, and especially teens, react immediately in a positive way to good looking people, this has been shown in countless experiments. This isn't to say that if you aren't an attractive person you won't be able to control your classroom, but is sure helps. Unattractive people have an additional hurdle they must overcome, that's simply a fact. Teens, just learning about the world (mostly through their cell phones these days) are extremely shallow.

seriously, How about Challenging teachers......

A student that has no food at home merits a call to the proper authorities.

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As an attractive white female, what do you do to keep your older black boys from speaking to you with their wrong heads?