In class we talked about the functional approach, which is examining a student’s inappropriate behaviour as well as the behaviours antecedents and consequents to determine the functions the behaviour may serve. I think that this is an important idea to use as a teacher. A lot of the time teachers will punish the student for their inappropriate behaviour without attempting to find out the reason for the behaviour. I think that the teacher stands a far better chance in stopping the inappropriate behaviour or changing it if they figure out the causes of antecedents of it.
If the student is behaving badly just to get attention, punishing them is not going to solve the problem. Rather, this immediate punishment would be giving the student what they wanted. They would assume that if they keep behaving that way they would keep getting attention. What the teacher should attempt is to discover where this need for attention comes from. This is not to say that the behaviour shouldn’t still be punished or that it can be solved, but attempting to understand the behaviour may lead to a solution.
After discovering the cause of the behaviour, as a teacher it is important to provide positive behaviour support to learn new behaviours and meet the student’s needs. It is important to continue to support good behaviour and if the students have needs to attempt to meet them. A student may have been behaving badly because they can’t focus after sitting in their desk to long. Once you discover this, you can try and put in place a plan so that this child might get up and go for a walk a couple times during class. In the FAT city workshop video we learned that fair doesn’t mean equal. If this student has specific needs, then we should work to make sure they are learning in the best way possible.
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