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I need help

by anonymous

May 5, 2010

I hope someone can help me. I have a class of third graders that came to me with plenty of baggage. Needless to say, instead of just one or two kids with significant issues I have about 8. That is not even including the kids who talk all the time, don't complete their work, and are rude to other students. I have kids who lie, steal and cheat. I can't even respond calmly anymore. I am to the point where I just react....or overreact. I am tired. Every morning I dread going to work because I know that there will be tattling, kids accusing each other, talking rudely, etc. I need to say that these same kids had issues last year. However, they weren't all in the same room!! Talk about setting a teacher up for failure/burnout. My class is referred to by others as the worst room in the school. However, I am taking all of this misbehavior personally. I continually question myself, doubt myself, and beat myself up. What do I do?????????? I can't imagine surviving the rest of the year, let alone ...See More

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Leah I'm sorry you have such a difficult class.

Several short articles that may be of assistance are: Tattling Versus Reporting, To Tell the Truth, Children Who Steal, Love and Logic Basics, and Elementary Classroom Rules and Management.

Just click below and on the title of your choice:

May 7, 2010

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Sara Kiids today are Absolutely different than they used to be - no doubt about it. They're restless, easily bored, unstructured, and often unafraid of traditional authority figures. But there's no easy way to turn back the clock and wish it 1955 again. I think it helps and a lot to have smaller class sizes. When teachers have 30 plus students in the ro...See MoreKiids today are Absolutely different than they used to be - no doubt about it. They're restless, easily bored, unstructured, and often unafraid of traditional authority figures. But there's no easy way to turn back the clock and wish it 1955 again. I think it helps and a lot to have smaller class sizes. When teachers have 30 plus students in the room, I've got no advice. I have no idea how you handle that - 30 kids and 8 of them troubled. Get volunteers. Send out a letter to the parents and grandparents asking for morning or afternoon volunteers. There's no way I could manage 30 plus kids with 8 troubled on my own.

the lying, stealing, cheating is everywhere these days - let's be honest, it's not just kids. Forget about it. If you can get through the day without the big kids throwing the small kids out the window, that's all you can hope for.

Get volunteers. Ask your church, ask the local retirement community, ask anybody. If you could get someone to volunteer every morning, that would help a lot. Two adults in the room makes a Huge difference for the kids and for you too - you won't feel alone with it.

Good luck - I truly hope it gets better. Give yourself a break - show a film Friday afternoons.

> I hope someone can help me. > I have a class of third graders that came to me with plenty > of baggage. Needless to say, instead of just one or two > kids with significant issues I have about 8. That is not > even including the kids who talk all the time, don't > complete their work, and are rude to other students. I have > kids who lie, steal and cheat. I can't even respond calmly > anymore. I am to the point where I just react....or > overreact. I am tired. Every morning I dread going to > work because I know that there will be tattling, kids > accusing each other, talking rudely, etc. > I need to say that these same kids had issues last year. > However, they weren't all in the same room!! Talk about > setting a teacher up for failure/burnout. My class is > referred to by others as the worst room in the school. > However, I am taking all of this misbehavior personally. I > continually question myself, doubt myself, and beat myself > up. > What do I do?????????? I can't imagine surviving the rest > of the year, let alone have another year like this??? > > Are kids just coming with more and more problem behaviors? > or is it me???? > >

May 8, 2010

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Craig Seganti The idea that students can bring bad behaviors into the classroom is one accepted by what I now term the failure industry of low expectations, an epidemic in the U.S. . You absolutely do not have to tolerate disruptive behavior in any classroom, you just haven't been given the proper tools to show you how to achieve the accountability on students' ...See More

May 11, 2010

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eil Dang. Everyone is pushing a book..

May 11, 2010

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Tom Couple thoughts on low expectations...

You can tell what a teacher's expectations are by how their students act. If students act out or treat each other or the teacher disrespectfully, that means that the teacher's ACTUAL expectations are low - regardless of that teacher's words or rules. "What you allow reveals your actual expectations." ...See More

May 11, 2010

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