Responding to Challenging Behavior

03/29/2004

Responding to Challenging Behavior

"All great work is preparing yourself for the accident to happen." - Sydney Lumet

RESPONDING TO CHALLENGING BEHAVIOR

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"Remember that each of us is born with a temperament which lasts throughout life. Teachers must take time for self-reflection to determine how their own temperament is affecting their relationship with their 'difficult' student.

"In an ideal world, difficult children would only be assigned to 'easy' teachers who are temperamentally blessed by nature with endless patience and adaptability. But, in reality, teachers who have trouble coping with change are caring for children with the very same challenge. This highlights the need for teachers to be self-aware, objective, and analytical. Is the child the source of classroom conflict, or is it the teacher?

"For a teacher, facing oneself with brutal honesty is often the biggest challenge of all! But it's often the secret to solving classroom behavior problems."

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