HOW
TEACHERS CAN DEVELOP TOLERANCE FOR STUDENTS’ TROUBLESOME BEHAVIOUR
Behavior means an
action or a response that an animal does voluntary or involuntary, voluntary
actions are those that we consciously decide to perform such as reading, walking,
cutting grass or playing. Involuntary actions occur without or deliberate
control or are carried out without us being aware.(Lema 1982).
Behavior
on the other hand is any activity that can be observed, recorded and measured.
It includes all sorts of things that organisms do and what people say or
write,(Katunzi,1999).
MAJOR
AREAS OF STUDYING BEHAVIOUR
Behavior is a very
broad phenomenon, no one individual, or book, can give in detail all the
aspects related to behavior, thus the study of behavior is divided into four
broad areas.
Physical
area
This area covers the
physical body and how it relates to behavior, no one exists without a body, A
person’s name is very much associated with him/her that is to say the body
human genetic makeup and physical appearance makes us similar as human being
but each different and unique as an individual person.
Cognitive
area
The second is related
to the neutral process that enables us to think, reason, solve problems, and
learn the language. All our deliberate behavior originated from this area, the
intellectual skill that we posses make us able to utilize any other organisms.
We have ability to acquire knowledge and skills, store than and retrieve them
later.
Emotions
Emotions include anger,
fear, love, happiness and sadness among other feelings we experience every time,
Emotional states can be a mixture of unpleasant and pleasant feelings, these
are so complex that sometimes we experience feelings that we are unable to
explain them to other people.
Environments
Environment is all that
is not us but surrounds us, all that are outside of our behavior, these factors
can either be physical or social. The world and all that is in it with the
exception of fellow human beings and social institution form our physical
environment.
Tolerance is the
willing to accept especially opinion or behavior that you not agree with or
people who are not like you (Oxford advanced learners dictionary seventh
edition pg 1615:2005)
Tolerance is the
ability to suffer, especially pain, difficult condition without being harmed (oxford
advanced learners dictionary seventh edition pg.1615:2005)
WAYS
ON HOW THE TEACHERS CAN DEVELOP TOLERANCE FOR STUDENT TROUBLESOME BEHAVIOUR
By having close
relationship with the troublesome student, here the teacher should act as a
counselor through talking with the students in a friendly relationship which
will promote love among the teacher and student, as the result the gap between
the teacher and the student can be reduced and the academic performance of the
student can be higher than the previous one.
Therefore the students
can change his or her characters completely and become a good student who listens,
the teacher, parent at all people in the community at large.
“The
relationship that the counselor establishes with the student should be warm and
positive, the students need to feel that he is accepted and that he has a real
friend” (Okech 82:1991).
By developing the
spirit of fair treatment to the student who have the problem through calling them
and discuss with them their behavioral problems by using polite language so that
the students should understand their punishment.
A teacher should have a
larger range of knowledge and should constantly, develop himself or herself
completely help others, that is knowing a little of everything to be able to
guide an refer an individual counsels to the right persons and institutions who
can help him with his problems.
Put the aggressive
students need more interventions within the positive context of learning
something everyone else is learning, this can influence the relationship
between the teacher and the student to become strong and happier.
Show the students that
you are the advocate for his success, students with serious behavior problems
may need extra encouragement to feed supported, begin interactions with the
students by acknowledging some strength, go out of your way to catch his
succeeding.
Teachers should develop the attitude of continuous
process of guiding the students
,individual differences should be considered although human being are
similar in many aspects, guidance and counseling is the responsibility of
parents in the home and that of teachers in school.
“Guidance
should begin with childhood at home and continue throughout education, this
means that guidance starts with the parents and continue with the society and
the teacher”(Okech 10:1991)
The teacher should
develop the attitude of giving the students the mechanism to recognize and
prevent the outbursts of violent behavior before they happen, while the
intensity and specificity for interventions may differ certain teacher
strategies can help build and reinforce positive behavior in all children.
By giving students a
common language with which to express their feelings and communicate with peers
and grown-ups, teachers should develop the attitude of giving students a common
language which will facilitate the interactions between the teachers and
schools administration as the result the common understanding should be
achieved to be obtained for sample student should be taught on how to ask
questions in a proper disciplined manner and proper direction by using good
language which express their feelings.
By fostering value of
empathy, caring, respect and self awareness to the students, this may lead to
the students who have bad behavior in schools to behave in a right direction
because of the value that will be fostered by the teacher for example when the
teacher have the tendency of respecting students, caring and showing love to
the students, students will love too teacher thus academic goals will be
achieved.
Teacher should develop
the attitude of creating school environment which can foster students to learn
positive behavior or skills, much of the time teachers use on disciplining or
“cleaning up” after a range of attack, often with little long- term benefit
,certainly discipline plays a role in violence prevention, but it should be
employed as a teaching mechanism ,not
just a means of maintaining the behavior
,comprehensive prevention strategies and an intervention process that
emphasizes problem solving, not punishment and facilitate collaboration between
staff, moms and dads and children should be implemented.
Develop a problem
solving, team approach with other teacher and administrators, teacher should be
interested to seek the solution of the problem that is giving the student by
cooperating with teachers and school administration in general. This will
minimize the problem of misbehavior of the students and thus the goals of
higher academic performance of the results can be achieved.
By congratulating
students when teachers see the making a good choice, this means that not always that the students who are
troublesome are doing bad things that are not required, but sometimes but
sometimes they do good things, therefore the positive behavior of the students
by congratulating student and showing the
sense of happiness to them, this will influence to the emergence of happier
relationship between teachers and students, As academic matters can be
achieved.
“Reward in moral training is given to make ethically
And socially acceptable behavior, rewards
such as
Praise and approval are
useful means of making children
Learn
that social acceptable behavior is satisfying” ( Katunzi
14: 1999)
By addressing the underlying issue and help the
student reframe his objectives, for example learning to master the task instead
of avoiding it this means that before taking any punishment the teacher should
use his or her time to address the behavioral problems of the students as well
as its consequences of that behavior way to handle the behavioral problem in a
right way without disturbing and confusing the students.
Determine
the circumstance that trigger out bursts, identifying a pattern of when and how
the students acts out helps define the factors that trigger the behavior and
subsequently, suggests strategies that will most effectively correct it.
By
asking mother and father to identify triggers and precursors behaviors that
they have observed and recommend copying strategies that work at home.
By
asking the school psychologist to develop uniform criteria for assessing
behavior, this will help to minimize inconsistencies in referral due to
different behavior to clearances among staff.
By
building trust with students by being accessible and encouraging, the teacher should always use the encouraging
words to their troublesome students and also teachers should have higher
expectation to their students especially for doing good things in national
level and international level, the tendency of the teachers to build the trust
to their students will lead the students to have the sense of self awareness
which will results to the minimization behavioral problem and the
relationship between teachers and
students will be good and happier which promote the conducive environment of
learning.
“Since the counselors responsibility is the
welfare of the student, A sense of trust should develop between him and the
student thus passing the way for the development of mutual confidence”. (Okech
82: 1991)
Normalizing social learning enables students
to understand that violent classmates need extra help from the teacher to learn
how to cope with frustration.
Violent
behavior is often linked to a psychiatric diagnosis example bipolar disorder,
oppositional defiant disorder, toilette syndrome, as pager’s disorder
depression, work with the mothers and fathers and school psychologist to
identify the cause as well as triggers for the behavior and to determine if
more through psychiatric evaluation is warranted.
Engage
father and mother as partners’ cooperation of the students parents is essential
for changing difficult behavior, the student is almost certainly exhibition
similar behavior at home, mother and father themselves may be worried or
frustrated.
Designate
an office or special place as a “time out room” for students who need to regain
safe control; teacher should make sure students know where it is and what adult
will be there to help them. This is often the counselor’s office or your
office.
By
laying out an action plan for students to help themselves and each other’s
behave appropriately, teacher should cooperate with the school administrate and
parent by setting out the action plan that will help the troublesome students
to adjust their behavior and behave in a good manner and have the behavior that
is required by all people in the school environment and in the community at
large.
Teacher
should develop the behavior of helping the student to build communication and
self control skills, thus will facilitate the interaction between the teacher
and the students to be easy and thus student may adopt the positive behavior
from the teacher as the results the happier relationship between teachers and
students can be found and the performance of the students in schools can be
advanced and becoming higher and higher.
CONCLUSION
Teachers can develop
tolerance for students’ troublesome behavior by showing the students that the
teacher is advocate for his success, by reinforcing behavioral values and
desired skills, and by showing close relationship between teachers and students.
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