Misbehaviour is defined as people (such as children) behaving inappropriately and there are several reasons why people misbehave. For children I feel it’s because they either want attention, power, are bored or just frustrated with a situation. I had an experience with a little girl misbehaving when I was volunteering at a preschool. It was clean up time and everyone started to put away the toys, but this girl didn’t want to clean up. She continued to play with the toys and when the teacher confronted her and asked her to clean up the girl pouted and said no. Then the girl continued playing and after a few minutes I went up to her and asked her to put away the toys, but again she said no. Finally the teacher decided to pull her aside and speak with her and then the girl began to clean up. In this situation I don’t feel the girl was crying out for attention, but I think she was frustrated because she didn’t know how to transition from play time to clean up time. And if the teacher gave up and let the girl continue to play, that would have given the girl power and she would feel like she could always do this.
This is why teachers need to calmly sit the child down and find out the problem. Once the teacher and child have talked through the problem, teachers needs to tell the child why the behaviour was wrong. This will help the child understand and hopefully help them avoid another situation from happening. But if the misbehavior continues, teachers may have to give warnings and then consequences to the children for them to understand and learn that their behaviour was wrong.
1 comment:
What if the child has no idea what the problem is?
This is so often the case especially when emotions are high.
What if they do not have the history of adults engaging with them in such a proactive way?
Consider what ways there could be to have the child access their feelings and thoughts.
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