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Classroom Discipline Chatboard TOP POSTS ALL POSTS SUBMIT POST Search Teachers.Net Advanced You're on the... Classroom Discipline Chatboard top posts | all posts | submit post Make Classroom Discipline a Favorite! We also recommend... Interest Groups Classroom Discipline Mailring Lesson Plans • Math • Language Arts • Science • Social Studies • Music • Art & Crafts • Phys Ed • Other Teacher Chatboards • latest posts • by subject • by grade level • by state • all chatboards • language arts center • technology center • foreign language center • hot topics • interest groups Teaching Jobs Classroom Projects Teacher Mailrings Teachers.Net Gazette • Current Issue • Harry Wong Column • Teacher Classified Ads • classroom printables Site Map next post skip topic Print | Share | Report Post Re: Kids won't listen...... Posted by Kel/IL/2nd on 6/23/08 Personal Opinion :-) You could have been neon green with purple pokadots and yellow stripes... Color is not the issue. They were testing you... and they saw what they could get away with and so they ran with it. They were the majority... they buddied up and took hold of the reigns. I teach in a school that is VERY diverse. I see no major difference between race/color/religion/etc. What I do see a difference in is age. You can read the books and articles posted by the previous teachers and then generate your own ideas. But you are probally looking for IDEAS too. Start on day one with team building activities... show that YOU are on the team WITH THEM! If you are the minority, you need to show them how you are the same as them. Find common ground and build from there. Let them know that you are human, just like them. AT THE SAME TIME... do NOT let them feel IN CHARGE. Let them know that you are the boss and what you say goes. There are NUMEROUS ice breakers out there... You can even make a powerpoint with personal pictures or just bring in items from home... to let them into your life a bit. Get parents on your side... then if you have to "use them"... do it! If the parents do not respect you then most likely the students won't either. Try getting your former classmates to come back for a visit and talk about next activities that you did with them last year. Pick wisely... you want students who will say things that will help you and your case as well students whose words will be respected by their younger peers. If this is truely a problem school wide then maybe a school assembly is in order... team building thru grade levels students and teachers on the same teams... maybe competitive in some way. Don't break and resort to yelling. What is the point really... ya know?!?1 BEST OF LUCK! RESPOND TO THIS POST START A NEW THREAD RETURN TO CHATBOARD Posts on this thread, including this one Kids won't listen......, 6/23/08, by not trying to cause controversy.. Re: Kids won't listen......, 6/23/08, by fair question. Re: Kids won't listen......, 6/23/08, by Tom. Re: Kids won't listen......, 6/23/08, by Kel/IL/2nd. Re: Kids won't listen......, 6/23/08, by quick question. Re: Kids won't listen [Ideas = TOME], 6/23/08, by Tom. Re: Kids won't listen......, 6/25/08, by Old Fashioned Discipline. Re: Kids won't listen......, 6/26/08, by Viola Swamp. Re: Kids won't listen......, 7/14/08, by Kioni Carter.

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