tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8438349.post114747560772458598..comments2024-03-28T00:28:06.035+13:00Comments on leading and learning: What's your 'mental model' about behaviour?Bruce Hammondshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07031065790535111400noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8438349.post-1147650229503425562006-05-15T11:43:00.000+12:002006-05-15T11:43:00.000+12:00The key to student behaviour is teacher behaviour....The key to student behaviour is teacher behaviour.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8438349.post-1147602969508866262006-05-14T22:36:00.000+12:002006-05-14T22:36:00.000+12:00I have observed many teachers push kids into a cor...I have observed many teachers push kids into a corner and then wonder why they 'hit out' literally or figuratively.<BR/><BR/>Education ought to be about respectful relationships and respect not abuse of positional power.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8438349.post-1147563853138296802006-05-14T11:44:00.000+12:002006-05-14T11:44:00.000+12:00I think the key question for schools to ask is why...I think the key question for schools to ask is why students are 'turned off' school and/or why they resort to mis-behaviour?<BR/><BR/>I do appreciate that there are a few students who arrive at school with so much 'baggage' that they, and the schools, need specialist help. <BR/><BR/>Not with standing the above, too much of the 'bad' student behaviour is 'caused' by the schools themselves - particularly as students reach the secondary level.<BR/><BR/>Why are so many students bored or mis-behaving? Schools ought to ask the 'why' question at least four times and, if they do, they might find the answer lies in their own hands. Why don't some students attend school? Answer, it is boring? Why is it boring? Lessons don't connect to student's lives. Why not? Teachers don't listen to their students concerns or questions.They talk too much.<BR/><BR/>Listening to the students and personalising education might be the real answer.It is not poor attendance that is the real problem it is more a matter of curriculum, poor pedagogy, or irrelevant school structures; a systemic problem.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com