Get Your Students Hired
We get quite a few of these, so we have developed some methods that work well. I teach Culinary Arts so we have to have them controlled because we give them knives to use!
If I have an angry student burst out in class, I sternly ask them to meet with me in private during break or after class. I do not allow them to disrupt class for more than an outburst. When I meet with them I let them vent, and I explain to them that I will help them find a solution.
Our student services department has a "counselor" who is trained to deal with these situations, and she has helped us tremendously. So if I feel I can't help the student, I assist them in making an appointment with our "counselor".
We have had a drastic reduction in continued anger from these students, even some successful turn-around stories.
Fortunatly I have not had to remove anyone from my classroom. I have had to quiet a couple students that like to stir up the group and get drama going. I have a coworker that asked a student to leave the classroom and she refused. Not sure what happened after that but Im sure it was nothing good.
Hi Jenny,
Taking 5 works like magic! It is helpful for both the angry student and the instrutor to take 5 so that both parties can gather themselves and pick up where they left off.
Patricia
I too like to remove the disruption from the classroom. I find it helpful to give the student a few moments to difuse his/her anger by taking 5 to walk and breathe. Then have him/her return to class as to not get behind. I will then meet with them after class or on break to hear them. It helps me to take 5 as well. I can listen and hear better as well.
I have a student who is angry at at school and he takes it out on me in class by constantly asking questions not related to the subject at hand. I finally had to take him outside and sternly inform him I would no longer acknowledge those questions during class time and if he wished to continue asking those questions he needed to see the administration about his issues and that was the end of the conversation.