UNDERSTANDING PUPIL’S BEHAVIOUR

Contributed by Jessy Rae D. Licaroz – Teacher III, Sta. Rosa Elementary School, Pilar

We are born as unique individuals. If a teacher wants to understand people, she should ask for their stories. Listen long enough, and learn not only the events of their lives, but their sources of meaning, what they value, what they want most and why they behave as such.

The late media scholar George Gerbner said, “We experience the world through stories. Whoever tells the stories of a culture defines the terms, the agenda, and the common issues we face.” .Personal stories are key starting points. When we share life-changing moments and surface our deepest motivations, we touch other people more profoundly.

One of the cardinal rules of teaching is that students will not believe in you until you first believe in them and what you’re teaching them. Our job gives us a great opportunity to get our pupils to open their minds and challenge themselves beyond their limits. We’re not only teaching them basic skills, we’re teaching them life skills – skills that will impact them well beyond the classroom and mold their proper behaviour.

As teachers, we must be prepared to understand the basic principles underlying the development of the skills and the proper techniques to handle the differences in the behavior of our pupils and how these principles relate to instructional practice and classroom instruction. It is also an advantage that teachers receive basic training on how to access and interpret the individual differences of among children. This helps us, teachers to resolve conflict among our learners.

All too often, teachers are provided simplistic “magic bullet” solutions to increasing pupil’s achievement. However, teachers must also be provided with systematic and rigorous trainings, sufficient to further develop and understand pupil’s behaviour in order to evaluate these claims with confidence

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UNDERSTANDING PUPIL’S BEHAVIOUR

Contributed by Jessy Rae D. Licaroz – Teacher III, Sta. Rosa Elementary School, Pilar

We are born as unique individuals. If a teacher wants to understand people, she should ask for their stories. Listen long enough, and learn not only the events of their lives, but their sources of meaning, what they value, what they want most and why they behave as such.

The late media scholar George Gerbner said, “We experience the world through stories. Whoever tells the stories of a culture defines the terms, the agenda, and the common issues we face.” .Personal stories are key starting points. When we share life-changing moments and surface our deepest motivations, we touch other people more profoundly.

One of the cardinal rules of teaching is that students will not believe in you until you first believe in them and what you’re teaching them. Our job gives us a great opportunity to get our pupils to open their minds and challenge themselves beyond their limits. We’re not only teaching them basic skills, we’re teaching them life skills – skills that will impact them well beyond the classroom and mold their proper behaviour.

As teachers, we must be prepared to understand the basic principles underlying the development of the skills and the proper techniques to handle the differences in the behavior of our pupils and how these principles relate to instructional practice and classroom instruction. It is also an advantage that teachers receive basic training on how to access and interpret the individual differences of among children. This helps us, teachers to resolve conflict among our learners.

All too often, teachers are provided simplistic “magic bullet” solutions to increasing pupil’s achievement. However, teachers must also be provided with systematic and rigorous trainings, sufficient to further develop and understand pupil’s behaviour in order to evaluate these claims with confidence.

References:

Understanding Behaviour (2000) Retrieved fromJoe Martin

http://www.NewTeacherUniversity.com.

Managing Challenging Behaviour (2013) Retrieved from

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/339074/Managing_Challenging_Behaviour_Final-U.pdf