Student driving me crazy.

mjroos9

Student driving me crazy.

I’m an elementary school teacher - grade 3/4 split class. My students need to be able to work independently while i teach the other grade. I have one grade 3 girl who has incredible temper tantrums, mostly for social reasons. Today she refused to work in a group and wanted to work alone, but I didn’t have enough science experiment materials to accommodate that. i put her in a group with only one other person and I told her to “work alone”, but just “share the materials”. I thought that would be a good solution, but she had another one of her melt-downs and went to the back of the room and started banging her head loudly against the rads. I checked to make sure she was mostly making big noise but not seriously harming herself. I told the others that the girl will calm down soon, and the rest of us should just ignore her for now. While I pretend to ignore her behaviour at these times it eats away at me and drives me mental. I know I could be handling it better, but I can’t afford to spend one on one attention on her in a split grade group work situation. Any teachers out there? What would you do?

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An Unknown Location | 4 years, 5 months ago (3 minutes after post)

This is exactly why I’m not having children.

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An Unknown Location | 4 years, 5 months ago (12 minutes after post)

For sure. I’m not having any of my own either. But I do need to work. This kind of stuff is the bad side of the teaching coin.

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An Unknown Location | 4 years, 5 months ago (22 minutes after post)

Maybe you could talk with her parents and work out a solution. Maybe there are home issues that you don’t realize, impacting the child’s in-school behaviour. Be honest with the parents. Maybe you could acommodate to the child’s needs and have her bring in her own materials if she has any, or bring in items at home to make her feel like she’s at home. (Maybe using the school’s items and interacting with the other children makes it harder for her to adjust.) TRY to get her to interact with other kids, maybe talk to another kid and say ‘So and so is having trouble talking to people. Maybe you could go over there and be nice to her…’ or whatever. Gah, sorry, I know I wasn’t much of a help. D:

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An Unknown Location | 4 years, 5 months ago (51 minutes after post)

Thank you. I appreciate your thoughts on this. There are days when i want to bang my own head on a radiator : ( This kid is bright and she’s a perfectionist which is why she can’t function well with her peers in group work. I’ve spoken with her mom a lot, and we brainstorm together on anger management strategies for her daughter. I just find when there’s the whole classroom chaos around me, i can’t actually implement any of these strategies. There’s not much I can do about any home situation. We all come in with our baggage… But thanks,,, it’s comforting just to hear from someone.

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