During this final week of classes, most of our instructors gave us some time to finish up our pile of critical tasks. For the class that we actually attended this week, classroom management, we went over some strategies for chronic behavior issues. This lesson and discussion was greatly appreciated; mostly because we have a few chronic behavior issues in my CT's 3rd grade classroom. The strategies were super helpful, and self-monitoring will definitely be the one I will try to use the most; I feel that it's important for students to be able to view and correct their own misbehaviors. These strategies, though, are not the most important thing I took from the lesson. The most important thing was that for every behavior, there is a need that is not being met. The key to correcting behavior is not to just throw strategies at a student until they conform, it is to diagnose the need that is not being met, and do your best to meet it; the behavior will correct itself once the need is met. The problem is, I want to be able to meet all their needs, but circumstances sometimes don't allow that to happen. If only I could save the world one child at a time.....
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