ANTISOCIAL STUDENTS BEHAVIOR PATTERNS AND HOW TEACHERS DEAL WITH THEM

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Gresham (2003-2004). How Disruptive Students Escalate Hostility and Disorder-and How Teachers Can Avoid It. For every teacher, the most significant task would be managing students in a way that ensures that the goals set at the beginning of the lesson are achieved. Having rebellious students is not only strenuous, exasperating but also intimidating to any tutor. An article by Hill, Elizabeth, and Frank published in the winter of 2003-2004 titled “How Disruptive Students Escalate Hostility and Disorder-and How Teachers Can Avoid It” looks at how teachers can manage turbulent and disorderly students. Antisocial students soon learn that it is trivial and more useful to get the attention needed by doing anything that will annoy the teacher and attract their peer's attention towards them.

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Antisocial students enjoy any confrontations with their teachers thus any consideration given to them encourages their negative behavior patterns. Some teachers have the idea that ignoring acting out students all together is an effective way of dealing with inappropriate behavior. However, they soon find out that students do not interpret it in that way. By acting out students the attention, they get from their peers' sustains their negative habits and the teacher ignoring them does not affect them. Negative interactions with students frustrate teachers as students take it as a game of strength. The students want to portray their superiority over their teachers to their fellow peers. As a result, the teacher may lose control over the class, and other students lose respect for them.

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