What can we do with disruptive children? | Debbie Breeze | TEDxNantwich

Children follow people first and then the follow rules. So true!!! They need a demonstration of each of the things that they are expected to do and demonstrations of the kinds of people that they're expected to become. I have one student I'm considering find out how to reach... When he had just left the hospital, he started having chats with classmates about different things, throw things around the classroom and play around occasionally without acknowledging my presence in the classroom. He probably doesn't have the right role models at home... I think that his father is absent because his mother must raise him herself. I think this may seem difficult but I must say that if teachers must call on students, they must not do it excessively. Let it be known what the expectations are before starting or continuing lessons.

We can't compassion our way out of this. All of the passivity and love is not going to change this.

A very heart felt and emotive presentation given by someone who obviously cares and is very knowledgeable in their field and as the parent of a disruptive child who has now grown up to be a successful business man it shows that time and effort and understanding works ,well done Debbie proud of you, Dave Martin .yes that one .

Where are the strategies?

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:D Really!
That didn't help at all, you just make me feel more bad about myself trying to look for a way to do the exact same thing you're saying !

i'm not being funny but when is she going to get to the point? It's all theory and statistics.

Bring back the birch. This speaker's presentation is gibberish. She gives no specifics. Less than worthless.

The children are out of order because they are injected from birth with others DNA, autism. Discipline has been banned etc. When this stops, children will be back in order. SIMPLE!

No, you don't want to be a teacher! Trust me !

I agree to a certain degree on what are is saying but when u have a huge population of children with behaviour in a school, it's tough. Some kids, you just can't reach.

I am totally fed up with this soft approach. It's time for discipline, respect and authority.

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Send the kids to the state hospital and boot camp! Bring back the paddle! Work on the kids who are high IQ and with good behavior.

This is so generalized it's annoying. Why is she putting it on teachers? This is terrible. There are many levels of disruptive behavior, some are mild some are dangerous. Ugh

Bring back the paddle, the psych hospital, and the behavior unit! Ticket parents and children. They should not be in the regular classroom. I had a desk thrown at me, I've been bitten, kicked, threaten and cussed at by a first grader.

Is there a transcript available for this talk?

It is clear this teacher is very devoted, but I wish she had gotten into specific reforms and strategies. We have to do so much already, we need practical advice and more support. We know things aren't working the way they are now, but how can we make it better?

A rotten apple spoils the whole barrel! You cannot pass over hundreds of years of confirmed experience!!

The only reason I want to become a teacher is to help depressed students because of this ’UsfuL leaRNIng TOoL’

Many kids today don’t sleep 8 hours a day, don’t eat breakfast before school, sit in front of a screen for at least 8 hours a day and drink energy drinks to keep awake. If I did that I would be climbing the walls too.

Hmmmm... “what can we do with disruptive children”......... learn to convey that you hear them.........for beginners?

Why is this video getting so much hate?? She's absolutely right. The behaviour of these kids can make us feel powerless and frustrated. Remembering that those behaviours are always stemming from somewhere or something directly impacts the way we choose to handle those children and compassion is always the way forward.

How are we teachers supposed to help these disadvantaged and vulnerable children if we have groups of 30, 32...? It is impossible.

If you are a teacher and you can't punish disruptive students, you are just screwed. It's that simple. Math teachers have it especially bad because math is so commonly hated by students. Unfortunately, most schools today do not allow punishment, yet they blame teachers for student disruption. They don't blame the horrible students, just the teachers! It is so screwed up. Pitiful parents control the administrations, and the unruly kids control the parents. That is the problem.

This is so true it takes that one teacher to show the children they matter. I work in a head start program and we have a few students who are "challenging" I tell the people I work with do you want to be the teacher who a child remembers as someone who helped them and showed them they matter and have potential or the teacher who made them feel like nothing.

It’s not useful. Old tips I knew

There’s a lot of sense in this. The UK system is sanction heavy but light on effective intervention. Typically challenging students will have sat in hundreds of detentions and will have been isolated and/or excluded many times. If this was the solution then surely the challenging behaviour would have stopped. The same is true in prisons where locking prisoners up for 23 hours a day satisfies the need for punishment, but does little to reduce their prospects of re-offending. Reduce sanctions (note I say reduce not get rid of) and improve intervention. This by the way is the tougher, more time consuming option for those who think it is ‘soft’ and we might start to improve the life chances of those students who display challenging behaviour.

Great speech. I'd like to have heard what these restorative methods are though

calming voice

I am sure that if you really want to know and understand some strategies you will go and find them. They are out there! This was a very interesting talk, thank you! Great work!

Loved this TED Talk, thank you Debbie!

Wow thank you great reminder

As a teacher, I have to say a lot of the things she's talking about are not nor should be what my job is. My job is to teach the students the standards and nothing more. I am not there to be their friend, I am not there to be their big brother, and I am not there to be some kind of savior to the students. Now don't get me wrong, if a student becomes inspired and wants to change along the way of me doing my primary job, great, but I'm not there to make a cat bark. I will always be willing to put in endless time to help students and tutor them outside of school hours, but only if they are willing to put in the endless time wanting to be taught. If a student does not care for school and does not want to learn, then I'm sorry for him/her but I have to move on to the ones who do.

Brilliant, thank you - I loved this

Thank you. I have purchased restorative teaching books as my heart was going this direction a while back. My concern is, is an understanding of global schools - a U.K. teacher teaching abroad. I feel abroad I may be able to try and implement things (primary qualified but teaching secondary abroad) - they have not had PSED or PSHE. But overall (western- not because I am funny but because at least there was PSED PSHE) - can there not be a way to fuse the both worlds of mainstream classroom and the special classrooms together? Teachers are limited and sure might wanna do all you said. It’s like the learning objective- how can the steps to success be blatantly obvious? How can these special schools be as one with main stream? Being empathic to the limitations of regular classroom. I am blessed after being abroad for 5 years I am in a school where children understand English to have this conversation - where I was able to take notes from this video and take action from an event the last working week. But I really wish for the blend to happen within the system where the teacher still has their personal time and work time is used productively to teach and also teach and support these children. Ps… I have saved this video as I felt it to be beautiful.

You come teach in the Alaska Bush for a year and we'll talk about it!

Actually, until social injustices keep making their way into classrooms, teachers will have to bear the load of them.

We are not counselors though, feel there should be more of a partnership between counselors and teachers

what is the solution?? How do we get there? Do you have a prescriptive idea? Hmm we need answers not just the same complains,,

It's not the teachers failing them 99% of the time though is it...its the parents and then they expect the teachers to "fix them" .

The kids need someone to attach to so they can be soothed therefore heard, felt and understood. They will then feel safe no matter where they go.

Part of everything in life is Damiener, people especially ones who have been neglected can read people very very well so they don't get hurt again!

I would take issue with one point. We don't want them to go away because they are not our problem anymore. We want them to go away because they are impacting negatively on the education of those around them. Which is not fair for the vast majority who have adequate parents.

i will say one thing. she is speaking about what mainstream teahcers are doing wrong and should do differently, with seemily no experience of of mainstream teaching (and if she does she should have spoken about that) working in a PRU is very different experience to a mainstream school. (smaller classes, probably less content to cover and long time with each student. this allows far stronger bonds and trusting relationships to grow. this is far more tricky to do in a mainstream school

So during my training we taught to take the child the classroom, take them to the sensory room, to work with them positively, but some theories still back sanctions. Debbie turns the sanctions on the there head. I still want to know what TED mean though.

Say it with your chest jhc

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I was the disruptive child at school I was bullied relentlessu because I was ginger I got expelled at 15 for fighting, all I wanted was a teacher to make safe no teacher did but one he helped me stand up to my bullies and showed me confidence and compassion, and many of you know this teacher for a bad reason he made world wide headlines he smashed a kids head in with weights during a breakdown caused by the school his name was mr harvey I do not condone his behavior it was wrong, but he was pushed I remember him everyday he made me feel safe, I didn't do well in my GCSES because I was expelled I didn't go to university when I left college, I went to work lost in endless meaningless jobs however at 29 years old I've got a job in further education to help the system of children that where forgotten in their teenage years and I love it, helping them achieve everyday and helping them feel safe.