Having a behaviour specialist or someone else cover your class for a few minutes so you can focus on the struggling student instead of sending them to the office or to the behaviour specialist makes so much sense. Many classrooms have so many needy students that the demands on the teacher's time and energy to deal with social emotional needs on top of academics too often becomes an either/or situation. The result in those situations is students who do not have their needs met in any area and teachers feeling they have failed their students.
Watching this now and thinking about how it's not so much about gaining control as it is safety - which I know you do address later in this video. I think one of the most harmful misconceptions I held when I was teaching was that escape, attention, and control were the primary drivers of unwanted behavior. Realizing that those were just a means to an end and that the end was safety was a complete game changer for me. Looking at dysregulation as a sign that a child feels threatened/unsafe and asking myself "What does this child need to feel safe right now?" completely transformed my teaching and parenting and my kids' behavior.
Oh my goodness! Thank you! The beginning of this school year has brought so many challenges in the form if dysregulated behaviors…. Your insight is Golden!
I have recently started subbing and this is the best video I have seen. Probably one of your best and I have watched a lot of them. We are dealing with a new ex-Covid generation and the struggle is real.
Polly Bath but I can remember a time when I walked in the building I just knew something sad was up it was around 7:50am and when the late bell rang at 8 that what I found out. Yeah. Long sad story short one of my teachers at school her husband and his parents had passed away. But really I would like to at least learn not to feed off other people emotions like a dog. We’re not dogs. Right now feeling my parents anxieties about the virus and they nurses.
