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To consider your view of disruptive behaviour

Aim

To consider your view of disruptive behaviour.

Evidence and reflection

Consider the list of student behaviours given below and decide how you would classify them according to your view of their seriousness.  You might like to place the behaviours on a continuum from ’misbehaviour’ - ‘maladjusted’ or devise you own definitions with reference to the degree to which they pose a threat to your teaching or control.

  • non work-related chat
  • refusal to do the work set
  • wandering round the room
  • making cheeky comments to the teacher
  • throwing pencil/rubber across the room
  • interrupting other students’ work
  • refusal to remove coat
  • not having the necessary equipment or materials
  • failure to produce homework
  • scribbling in a textbook
  • sniggering/double entendres
  • making a racist remark
  • damaging fittings/equipment
  • provocative chair rocking
  • talking when silence has been requested
  • arriving late
  • making a sexist remark
  • muttering under breath after a reprimand
  • asking a personal question of the teacher
  • swearing at another student
  • swearing at the teacher
  • provoking others to laugh by clowning
  • pushing past the teacher
  • twanging a ruler
  • hitting/attacking another student

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