Different strategies are used to help children and young people to promote positive behaviour in school whether it is in the yard or the classroom. Many children who do misbehave do this for a number of reasons including boredom, unable to do the work and to show off in front of their friends especially when the other children respond to the bad behaviour.
It is up to the member of staff who is conducting the lesson to create a lesson plan that will keep the pupils engaged whatever their ability. If a child finds the activity either over- challenging or not challenging enough then this is when they may start disrupting the class. When the teacher is teaching and I am an extra adult in the class then we arrange the tables so that those children
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My maths group is a prime example of this. They cannot cope in the normal classroom situation where the children are expected to sit, listen, answer questions orally when the teacher is teaching and then sit and do written work in their books. This is too much for them so when I have them I split the lesson up so we do work on whiteboards, I then teach them that day’s learning objective where there is lots of discussion, we do a couple of examples on their whiteboards before doing some work in their books. If the weather is nice then I try to do half of the lesson in the yard so they are proactive and they are enjoying it so are more likely to remember it. When it was snowing we went outside and made ten snowballs, they then had to smash however many up so if they smashed three up they then had to work out the percentage and decimal left. They absolutely loved this and their behaviour was impeccable because they could access the activity and actually understood it.
Direct/ teacher- focused approach to teaching is a very authoritarian approach to teaching. This is when the teacher is telling the children the facts about what they are learning about. It is very