How the school teachers prevent and control the violence into the classroom? Written by Maria de los Angeles Quintero Garcia Two years ago I was working in a school as a mathematics and physics teacher, it was my first job when I found a student with aggressive behavior. This student was very violent with the other classmates; I saw how this student hit three students at the same time. I sent this student to the coordinator in looking for help but when the coordinator spoke with this kid, the coordinator was aggressive too! But all the schools should help students who act aggressively. Because of that, the people who work in a school must learn about this topic every day. For example, the UNESCO has a guide for teachers because is necessary that the teachers learn about: how they can identify and help children with aggressive behavior, because they can react in two different ways.
The teachers who react in a bad way, are those ones who don’t know how to react when they find one or more students that act with violent behavior. Some of the research done by Jaana Juvonen, one of the most important teacher and researcher at UNESCO, shows a few examples that she found in the research about jesting that some teachers use in a high school when they confront cases of violence into the classroom, like: “You are the rotten apple” or “You are the worst student that I’ve ever had”. Another article by the National Association of School Psychologists (NASP) indicates two of the worst reactions that could have with the aggressive student, are the ones: when they answer with equal behavior and allow that one student harms physical or psychological integrity of the others. All this happens because teachers don’t know how to react.
On the other hand, the teachers whoknow how to react when they identify a student with violent behavior are those ones who create supportive and safety spaces for the student with aggressive behavior and his/her partners in and out of the classroom. According to the guide for teachers “Stopping violence in schools” written by the UNESCO there are specifically 10 actions to stop violence in the school among them the two more relevant are: The teachers propose an environment of constant dialogue and include all the community (classmates, teachers, counsellors, family members and others) to build a healthy environment for all the students. This may be possible if all the teachers learn and apply these things.
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individually without generalizing (for each aggressive student). They should pay more attention to the different forms of violence and their consequences in that way they can help to the students with aggressive behavior. And, all the school community always must observe the students and their behaviors and if it changes, it can be an alert so listen, talk and
Reading References: https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/issue_papers/2006/IP219.pdf http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0018/001841/184162e.pdf http://toolkit.ineesite.org/toolkit/INEEcms/uploads/1041/Identifying&Helping_Children.PDF
help. In my opinion, there are many sources that we as teachers can read to learn in this way we can be the difference starting from school with children and remember the proverb says “Educate children and you will not have to punish men�
Reading References: https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/issue_papers/2006/IP219.pdf http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0018/001841/184162e.pdf http://toolkit.ineesite.org/toolkit/INEEcms/uploads/1041/Identifying&Helping_Children.PDF