You had a 7th grade student who on the 4th day of school zipped his head inside his backpack and refused to take it out for your entire 98 minute period?Teaching is all about thinking on your feet. So what would YOU do?
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applaud.
that's a good one.
This is all hypothetical, right?
I think I would laugh for 98 minutes!
Then I'd give him a referral.
The vice principal at the school i taught at called me a referral junkie.
original!
have other students do the same, and see what they get out of it. it must have been hard to breathe in this hot weather...
as long as the kid does his homework, get his education in the class room, and be nice to other students, i don't see a problem...
would depend on if it was the first time he/she did something like that or there was a history (in the first 4 days of school) of doing things.
and if they seemed to have a shy or angry or just goofing around type of personality.
So I actually thought about this, and I think I'd invite the rest of the class to put their heads in their backpacks for the first X minutes of class, and see who could answer questions without referring to notes (literally in the dark :) ).
Hopefully that would diffuse the situation so that when the X minutes were up, all the students would take their heads out, including the troublemaker, who would realize that he wasn't getting the attention he wanted. And if he kept his head in I'd let him, but I'd talk to him after class on a one-to-one level (again with not giving him the attention he wanted).
And what would YOU do?...
Tell him that if someone slaps him on the back he will be stuck like that forever.
i would make him solve a quadratic equation on the chalkboard with the bag on his head.
a quadratic equation...now that is just cruel...
I love this!
I like the simplicity of Beth's solution. But, how to avoid giving him the attention he so craves? So then, I like the goal of Elis, to detract from him. Would it?
Any others?
wait a minute ... your class is 98 minutes?
98?
talk about your quadratic equations...
OMG, what a shocker! I think I would ignore him as it sounds like a cry for attention.
His behavior was a lot more original than my response.
I told him that I was going over to my desk and would count to 5 and expected him to be over at my desk to tell me what was wrong by the time I got to 5.
I counted, but he didn't come.
So I left him there and told his table that he was making a bad choice and they shouldn't bother him as then they would be making a bad choice too.
He owed me time after school (which he paid) and we called home.
and yes, we have 98 minute periods. I have honed my teen-age entertainment skills to the point that I can actually hold their attention for that long.
Except, of course, for the backpack hider.
I think I would make someone else deal with it.
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