INTERVIEWS: How should teachers deal with disruptive students?
I think a teacher should definitely not punish the whole class. But if it’s one or two students that constantly do it, they should single out those students. The teachers should make them stay after class or do standards [writing sentences over and over] after class or during recess. Daniel McKinney, 15, Loyola HS If […]
I think a teacher should definitely not punish the whole class. But if it’s one or two students that constantly do it, they should single out those students. The teachers should make them stay after class or do standards [writing sentences over and over] after class or during recess.
Daniel McKinney, 15, Loyola HS
If people talk in my math teacher’s class, he picks on them and makes them answer math problems on the board. This makes you not want to talk anymore since the problems are hard. But mostly, people respect him enough not to talk. They can tell that he’s passionate about his subject and that he truly wants us to learn what he’s teaching.
Leira Marte, 17, Notre Dame Academy
One time our Spanish teacher was so irritated by the behavior of a sarcastic kid in class that he put him in a box with holes in it so he could breathe and see but wouldn’t talk. It was hilarious. It worked for about five seconds.
Angela Mang, 16, Arcadia HS
My math teacher is very lenient. We have 36 kids in the classroom, so some students choose to sleep or listen to their iPods (because they know he can’t slow down to yell at them), but the rest of the class chooses to pay attention because we respect him. He comes to school an hour early and stays an hour after in case we need help, and works out our homework himself so he can shown us the steps on his computer.
Charlotte Toumanoff, 15, Marshall HS
The teacher with the quietest class is a 5-foot-tall woman, who will scream at you or point you out. If you talk, she’ll stop teaching. Everyone’s afraid of her and no one says anything. She has a reputation for discipline, so no one even thinks about messing around in class.
Marcus Kazazian, 17, Daniel Murphy Catholic HS
There’s nothing you can do because he’s going to do it every day. That’s his personality. You should just ignore him.
Jovan Dillon, 18, Duke Ellington Continuation HS
I’m usually the one who makes the [disruptive] comments. It usually makes me stop if the teacher lets the class laugh and then moves on.
Poonam Mantha, 16, Arcadia HS
Some teachers like to yell a lot and that’s not really effective. I have some teachers that like to humiliate students. People cry because of this one teacher. If you’re passing notes in class she’ll read it aloud and make up stuff.
Jisu Yoo, 13, Wilson MS (Glendale)
