Student Contributor: F. Lebo
Writing a “note” to another teacher and allowing the student who is acting out to run it to the teacher. This gets (allows the student to leave class) the student out of class and gives them a break and time to take a breath.
This can be used if you have a student that is consistently acting out and need a way to get them to calm down or out of the class for them to take a breath without making them feel like they are being targeted. Simply, write a note to a teacher that says “ (student name) just needed a break. Thank you” so the accepting teacher knows what is going on. The student has had time to recollect themselves and feel like they are doing something for the teacher. This can be used when the student is acting out because of boredom from the lesson as well. This simple act corrects the behavior by getting the student out of the class and away from distractions.
I chose this as a corrective phase tool because it allows for the student to do a favor for the teacher without realizing that it’s correcting their behavior. It allows for the acting student to get out of the classroom and allows the student to recollect themselves. Redirects their behavior into a task rather than distracting others.
For influences, I put this under the Teacher Directed and Collaborative because it is a teacher giving the student something to do, but collaborative because it also helps the student. As a teacher directed task it gives the student the sense of belonging in the class when asked to do a favor, while the student can still refuse to do the favor. It is unlikely a student would refuse because if he/she is acting out they’ll want to leave anyway. It allows the teacher to correct the behavior without completely calling the student out.
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Tool Source: Donita Torres
