S3EP13 Six ways to prevent your students from misbehaving for other teachers

Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers

Angela Watson

Education, Courses

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2016

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

There are few things that annoyed me more as a teacher than picking up my students from P.E. or lunch, or having a small group return from a resource room pull-out class only to discover that some students had been completely out of control while they were gone. With some classes I taught, it seemed like the moment I was out of sight, there was almost guaranteed to be an incident of disrespect to another teacher, a physical altercation between students, or something even worse.

The good news is that while you can’t control what happens when you’re not around, there’s quite a bit you can do pro-actively to prevent the problem from reoccurring and to open the lines of communication between you and other teachers. Listen in as I share 6 strategies to help you do just that.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Season 3, episode 13 of Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers.
0:07.0	I'm your host Angela Watson and I'm here to speak life, encouragement, and truth into the minds and hearts of educators and get you
0:15.8	energized for the week ahead.
0:18.6	Today I'm going to share some thoughts on what to do when your students misbehave for
0:22.4	other teachers in the school.
0:24.6	Whether it be at lunch, art, PE, pull out special education classes, or any other time that they're
0:30.6	not under your supervision.
0:33.0	Visit Truth for Teachers.com to get the transcript, links to recommended resources,
0:38.0	and to share your thoughts on the show.
0:41.0	There are few things that annoyed me more as a teacher than picking up my students from PE or lunch or having a small group of students return from a resource room pullout class, only to discover that some students had been completely
0:55.4	out of control while they were gone.
0:58.3	With some classes that I taught, it seemed like the moment I was out of sight, there was almost guaranteed to be an incident of disrespect
1:05.2	to some other teacher or a physical altercation between students or sometimes something even worse.
1:11.6	Once I went to pick up my classroom the media specialist and I learned
1:14.8	that a student had gotten mad and run out of the building. He was missing from
1:19.5	school property for two hours and the police eventually discovered him sitting on the railroad
1:24.9	tracks behind the school.
1:27.4	He was escorted back to my classroom with a huge pout on his face and he told me, Mrs.
1:32.2	S told me I couldn't check out a new book because I didn't
1:34.7	return my old one and that wasn't fair so I left. It wasn't fair so I left. I mean you
1:41.8	can't make this stuff up and it's so so frustrating because you as
1:46.9	the teacher aren't even there you have no idea what actually happened and
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