I would like to talk about a dear ten years old student without any kind of discipline or academic problems but with a big ambition of being the center of the class, and it really turned the class environment so bad.
I started to teach this group 3 classes after it began and there had been problems before, it not only for my dear student self esteem but also for the variety of students’ ages since 10 to 15. It’s worth mentioning that my special student got some troubles with the oldest one, all for the difference in behavior each one fortunately had.
I discovered that because my student started to call me every time and to ask me about every single word, she asked me how to develop each activity immediately after I finish to explain it; it drove mad the others, actually me too:(. Moreover it was hard for her, to the point she didn’t want to continue with the course, because the rest of the class began leaving out her in the entire classroom tasks. Furthermore, the oldest student couldn’t live with this attitude, he changed the room and I had to have works with my darling student’s mother and we could understand her behavior. She studies at a personalized classes’ school with only six or seven students where teachers have a total connection with them. Her mother is so close to her, sharing the majority of their time or calling her each time they’re not together. This is what my lovely student wants or needs from me. Although it’s complex I’m trying not only with her but with everyone, and her mother talked with her and she decided to come back the course. In reality her attitude has changed, a little bit but has changed. Now she’s a lovely pupil with me and sometimes she realizes she’s not on the class good manner and she's not the only student. The problem I can notice is that she has turned into a distracted student :P
I started to teach this group 3 classes after it began and there had been problems before, it not only for my dear student self esteem but also for the variety of students’ ages since 10 to 15. It’s worth mentioning that my special student got some troubles with the oldest one, all for the difference in behavior each one fortunately had.
I discovered that because my student started to call me every time and to ask me about every single word, she asked me how to develop each activity immediately after I finish to explain it; it drove mad the others, actually me too:(. Moreover it was hard for her, to the point she didn’t want to continue with the course, because the rest of the class began leaving out her in the entire classroom tasks. Furthermore, the oldest student couldn’t live with this attitude, he changed the room and I had to have works with my darling student’s mother and we could understand her behavior. She studies at a personalized classes’ school with only six or seven students where teachers have a total connection with them. Her mother is so close to her, sharing the majority of their time or calling her each time they’re not together. This is what my lovely student wants or needs from me. Although it’s complex I’m trying not only with her but with everyone, and her mother talked with her and she decided to come back the course. In reality her attitude has changed, a little bit but has changed. Now she’s a lovely pupil with me and sometimes she realizes she’s not on the class good manner and she's not the only student. The problem I can notice is that she has turned into a distracted student :P
5 comments:
Wow Suzy... This is a real pain in the eye. Apart from giving her more attention, what else have you tried? These attention catchers are a general problem (I have noticed). Please, let me know what you did.
I find really interesting the problematic situation you have in your classroom. I think that having students from different ages can become the class in a real mess; this is due to the fact that they do not share the same interests. What you can do on one hand is to assign different activities regarding the same topic depending on your students´ ages. E.g. if they are ten years old, they can find really appealing everything about disney´s movies, programs, or cartoons. you can relate your syllabus with their interests.On the other hand, it is important to have as well other kinds of activities that can encourage the integration of your students. In that way, learners will feel comfortable and will accept their peers too.
mmmm that is a really a hard experience;I think, in each classroom at least one of that students appear, they are always trying to catch everyones attention, but we did´nt realize why or what is happen or how can we change their attitudes?, maybe because we didn´t go deeper to the problem and we didn´t take the time to find the real cause of the problem...
Well is very difficult to work with difernt ages because they don´t like the same so the activity u prepared for a 10 years old student can´t be the same for a 15 years old student, but you can solve it find like a neutral point prepraing activities for both the youngest and the oldets and encougare them to helping the others and share time with them too.
Well about overprotective mothers they think is ok because they love their kids, but they really don´t know the damage they are causing, their kids will be so dependent and that dependece will be transfer to the teacher, friends and other family memebers, so they can not do anything by themselves...I think you as a teacher could help her showing her that she can do a lot of things by herself, tell her you always will be there but that she needs to work sometimes alone or with partners...
And about distracted students i try to focus my attention on them but without leaving the others outside the activities, ask if they have problems at home and try to practice more with them.....:)... It will be a process so it will take time....=)
Thanks for your comments and your help!! but I want to emphasize that the catcher attention and the distracted student is the same. What happened is that she improved her previous attitude but turned into distracted after a short talk I had with her mother. Moreover she's a very good student and she enjoys the activities a lot...
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