could you give me any examples about classroom behaviors of 6th grade students???
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Sixth graders can be very moody and oppositional. They are impulsive and this can sometimes appear as rudeness, they just say whatever pops into their heads. If you have a classroom climate where there is a lot of rudeness it is usually because it has become "cool" to be so. The ringleader might be the only truly rude one, he/she might have family or emotional problems and the others are mimicking him as they can tell it is a way to gain power over the adults or other children. They are not inherently rude beings, but they want desperately to fit in and be cool. This is the beginning of the peak of cliques.\n\nThey are very self-absorbed, and things are only important if they are important to them, at that moment. They love to argue and disagree as a way of showing their independence. They are still children and they have limited areas of power, but they can disagree with you, and they will.\n\nThey have extremes of emotion and can be cruel to eachother. They can sound like adults, and sometimes it is easy to assume they think like adults and know what they are doing, but they generally do not think as clearly as we do. They love humor in any form.\n\nIn class they will generally respond better to new information and activities than the overload of review they can sometimes get at this level.
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I teach a 3/4/5 combo class in a tiny rural district. I love my third graders! They are always (as a group) so much better behaved than my older ones. They still want to please adults and are still complete sponges.No hormones! They are usually more trustworthy because of this, so I can set them up to work independently more often than older ones who may like to cheat and need more supervision. Also, you don't have to bend over with them near as much (as in kindergarten), which saves wear and tear on your back and knees.
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mentally alert teachers harassing students.......hahahah!
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I nearly started a riot in a sixth grade classroom when I asked the students, "What do you think of  your school lunch?" Within 10 minutes, they were making petitions to have the lunch program changes to be healthier. They were so captivated.\n\nI was also in another middle school classroom where the students had written fantastic essays called "Those who don't know ." They each picked a topic they loved (say football) and wrote an essay that formatted as follows:\n*****\n   -----------------\nThe Assignment - Copy Change\n\nStudents are to write their own "Those Who Don't."  The essay should be about a place where they feel comfortable, but where others may not feel comfortable.  It should also include information about a place where they feel uncomfortable.  The following phrases should be included in the three paragraph essay:\n\n       Those who don't know any better .......  They think .....    They think .....     They are stupid people who.....\n\n       Be we aren't afraid .....\n\n       ....our knees go shakity shake .....     Yeah.  That's how it goes and goes.\n\n\nI hope this helps!\nmore about the assignment at: http://wonders.eburg.wednet.edu/Morgan/ThoseWhoDont.htm
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Honestly I don't sorry, but if there's somthing wrong with the teacher, as if their hitting kids, or yelling at/intimidating them. REPORT THEM IMMEDIATELY!, I had a 3rd grade teacher who made almost every single kid in my class cry (I was the only one who didn't because I have a psychological abnomality that dosn't allow me to portray my emotions correctly), Please don't let your or anyone else child continue to be abused by a bad teacher. If the teacher is awesome though, cool deal. I would sit in during a few classes (if not working) and check out the teacher yourself though. First thing always though, believe the children who attend the class, if you need a really good review of a teacher ask their students what they are like.
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Give them small pieces of text so that they may follow along as you read to them.  Ultimately, you will want them to take turns reading aloud.  I know this has gone "out of fashion" in the classroom, but it really works.  You will be modeling tone, cadence, pronunciation, etc.  I am currently teaching a literacy unit in a tenth grade classroom.  We do this every day.  This is what they were missing......
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I buy that.  I teach myself and it is very funny to watch when we have all district meetings.  Each grade teacher behaves the way that their students would.  High school people are very serious and business like.  Elementary school teachers are serious but more touchy feely.  Middle school teachers (like me) screw around and throw things and get off task.
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Try dealing with hundreds of little A-holes all day!  Actually, the teacher's lounge is a gathering place to compare notes on trouble makers, and how they can combine to make his or her life a living hell!  Feel you are being treated poorly by several teachers?  You must have been the daily topic in the lounge! By the way, nice grammar!  go to school!
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Here's another question for you:  Why is it that students behave very badly in the classroom but when the principal walks in they are nice until s/he walks out?  It goes both ways you know. \n\nFurther, don't paint a picture with such a broad brush; not all teachers modify their behavior when an administrator is in the room.
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I know it is easier said, but first try power of silence. It worked for me.  Once you enter into the classroom, you simple have to take charge, stand in front of the class and do not move or say anything until you get total attention of all the students.\n\nSilence is powerful. It took the student about 15 minutes before I got complete silence.  The teacher next door ran to the principal requesting that I be employed full time and this was what they did. The vacancy resulted because the last two teachers for this class could not take it no more and gave up the plan book never to return.   \n\nSecond lay down you class rule.  I had one rule: If you want to stay, you must obey.\n\nThird, inform them that you will have phone numbers, address, and emails to make contact with their parents and guardians.\n\nAlso so not call on anyone in your class to do something before giving them advance notice or before you know them individually. I had an 11th grade student who acted up in class only when students were asked to read in class.  Why? The student could not read and did anything to avoid called upon to read.  So get to know your students. \n\nFinally ask each student to write something about them self and turn it in to you. If it is the lower class ask them to say it while you take time to write what they say.  Now that you are in control, you can teach, not baby sit.
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I have a daughter in the 6th grade. All I hear about is how her homeroom teacher will get mad at them for something, this really bothers her. She tries to please everyone. And then there is "the in group" if she doesn't have the right hair style or the right clothes, God help us all. In 6th grade it isn't all about boys, yet! I think it is really hard with the transition from little girl to young lady that concerns them most
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Teachers need to be taught how they should behave in front of their students.  Knowledable teachers are not good enough.  They language they used and how they present themselves are important too.
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I absolutely hate it when my teachers are unprofessional. They sit around with their feet on the desk wearing flipflops and sweatpants and drinking a Coke. They just yell orders, make threats, etc, but nothing happens. Basically I hate it when the class is a joke.
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If the student knows you accept them, regardless of their English fluency, they become comfortable and productive in your classroom.\n\nI work in a very economically underprivileged area (ALL students are on FREE lunch -- not reduced lunch... free), in an elementary school.\n\nMost students are from Spanish-speaking homes, and Mexican culture.\n\nBehaviors I see regularly in my classroom that I "accept" and then gently guide students away from over the school year...\n\nResource hoarding.  I have buckets of supplies, and allow students to hoard as much as they like, until they get used to the idea that they won't "run out." Taking other peoples' supplies is not allowed. The "stolen" item is openly returned by the "thief," who then is guided to practice asking for new materials from me or my EA. It does mean that at the end of the school year, when I pull apart and box things for the summer, I find little stashes of stuff all over the place, which I consolidate back in the buckets for next year....\n\nLack of eye contact with authority figures.  In the Mexican culture, it is disrespectful to look an authority figure in the eye. Once the kids are comfortable with me, we have several class discussions about this and other small differences that make a big difference in how the kids will interact with authority.\n\nAlso, I am the Gifted Enrichment teacher for my school (gifted falls under special education in my state). I work hard with the kids to understand how and why regular ed instruction is done the way it is, and how to challenge themselves and find their own depth of knowledge (while I continually try to "nudge" the regular ed teachers into curriculum compaction and allowance for independent study rather than drill).\n\nWith my Resource remediation students, certain phrases are NOT allowed.  "I can't" is replaced by "I need more time" and/or "I need more help."  Looking at someone else's work and saying "That's easy" is also not allowed... everyone has things that are easy for them and hard for someone else, and vice versa...we don't make someone else feel like they are dumb by criticizing their level of work.\n\nWe build on our strengths. I have several kids with normal or better non-verbal intelligence, who don't even talk in complete sentences because their language disability is so severe. Guess who were in charge of puppet and set design for our puppet show this year.... not as "filler" jobs but actually IN CHARGE. The set and puppets looked wonderful!
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First of all, visit this website  www.rubybridges.com\nfrom the info you find there, you should be able to come up with some interesting thoughts on the subject.. one interesting activity that I have seen done is to separate the group [class] into two groups.. one group made up of all students with blue eyes [or brown.. or green.. doesn't matter which]..the other group made of all the other students.  THEN, you proceed to announce that the students with blue eyes [or whatever colour you choose], are inferior in every way.  They are NOT allowed to sit in the front of the class.  Everyone ELSE gets to do activities, etc., first.. and that group with the blue eyes has to clean up after everyone else.  You make certain they understand that BECAUSE they have blue eyes, they are not as pretty.. not as smart.. not as talented.. and NOT as likely to succeed.. in anything at all..\nAfterward, ask ALL students how this made them feel?  How did it feel to be discriminated against for something completely out of their control.. something which has absolutely NOTHING to do with their intelligence or abilities in any way?.. then ask them if they want to switch to where all the BROWN eyed people are the lower class?  You might have them write a page about how the activity made them feel.. and how they see prejudice now that they have experienced it.  Good luck.
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Rules are a pain because they need enforcing and children expect that they will be enforced exactly the same way for each student.  What I found more helpful was to use the school's Code of Behaviour and to discuss and reinforce it regularly.  Then, any situation that arose could be dealt with from that perspective..\n\nIn one school where I worked, the Code of Behaviour had four points and, sorry, I can only remember three of them - (not necessarily in order):\n- always do your best work,\n- keep your hands and feet to yourself,\n- treat everyone with respect.\n\nThese seemed to cover any situation that arose.  For example, if a student wears t-shirts that have offensive slogans on them, the discussion will be around respect.
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When I went to my first day of grade school we were seated alphabetically, so I wound up next to this kid from India. Being so noticeably different he didn't talk much to anyone, so within a month he was more or less shunned by everybody (including myself).\nOne day the teacher was out of the room and a spitball fight erupted, but as usual the kid from India just sat there doing nothing. About a minute into the chaos I saw him wad up an entire sheet of paper and stick it in his mouth. He didn't throw it, he just kept working it in his mouth until his saliva turned it into a pulp. When he finally let it fly it hit the blackboard with a splatt and left a mess of paper bits about two feet in diameter. There was a collective "whoa" from the rest of the class before the spitball fight continued, but this kid just sat there with a little grin on his face, saying nothing the whole time.\nNeedles to say I was incredibly impressed. To a six year old boy there's not a whole lot that compares to a perfect spitball, so I knew right  then that I just found a new best friend. \nI suppose when I look back, it was my friendship with this kid that first allowed me to open up to other cultures, and eventually to the beauty in other religions.\nIn a very real way, I owe my spiritual development to a spitball.