Tuesday, May 1, 2007

Managing Behaviors

Right now I am working in a preschool with two year olds. Currently I am having a little bit of difficulty with a few select students in the room. It seems that they have a "love/hate" relationship with each other and feed off of each other. One girl, which is a co-worker's daughter, really seems to be the leader and when she does something the other student seems to follow. Especially if one of the teachers ask her to stop. I know that acknowledging it just draws attention to the situation and for a while we would just ignore it and praise the students doing what was suppose to be done. However, that does not seem to work as well anymore and the students are "annoying" each other even more. I am not sure if the main purpose is teacher attention or what? Also my co-teacher and I tend to disagree on ways to teach certain things. We have different approaches to certain behaviors and techniques. I know some of you are working with younger children and have been for a while so if there is any advice you have please pass it on! Thanks.

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