S5EP14 How to respond to rude, disrespectful student attitudes (with Robyn Jackson)
Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers
Angela Watson
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🗓️ 7 May 2017
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Today we're going to talk about the little things students do that are rude, disrespectful, or just annoying. The things that don't necessarily warrant some kind of consequence, but that you don't want to let slide every time. How should a teacher respond to eye rolling, teeth sucking, muttering under the breath, and so on? What do we do about bad attitudes?
I don't want to settle for trite rehashed info, so I reached out to Robyn Jackson because I knew she could take this conversation to a deeper level. Robyn was a National Board Certified English teachers in Maryland, just outside of Washington DC, and has since been and administrator, adjunct professor, consultant, and speaker. She's been championing equity, access, and rigor for over 15 years.
Robyn is seriously one of my favorite experts in the education space, because she has a deeper understanding of human behavior and motivation than anyone else I know, and she always keeps it real. I've had the pleasure of seeing her speak in person a few times just hang on her every word--there's so much good info there. She has this lovely way of uncovering the root problem and also sort of calling you out on your own mess instead of allowing blame-shifting.
Grab a notepad when you listen to this one, because you're going to want to take notes!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Season 5 episode 14 of Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers. |
| 0:06.0 | 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 energized for the week ahead. |
| 0:15.0 | Today I'm going to be talking with Dr Robin Jackson on how to respond to rude, disrespectful |
| 0:21.1 | student attitudes, particularly amongst older kids. |
| 0:24.4 | Visit truth for teachers.com to get the transcript, |
| 0:27.3 | links to recommended resources, and to share your thoughts on the show. |
| 0:30.7 | So I have done a lot of Truth for Teachers episodes about |
| 0:34.8 | behavior management. We've talked about creating a strong positive classroom |
| 0:38.9 | culture. We've talked about being proactive and preventing problems. |
| 0:43.0 | And we've also talked about what to do about extreme and violent student behaviors. |
| 0:48.4 | I got a request from a listener to talk about the annoying disrespectful student behaviors at the middle and high school level. |
| 0:56.0 | And I realize that I don't actually have any episodes about that. |
| 0:59.7 | I've talked about how not to get discouraged by those kinds of behaviors. I've talked about how not to get discouraged by those kinds of behaviors. I've talked |
| 1:04.3 | about how not to give up on apathetic kids, but what about practical responses in |
| 1:09.2 | the moment? So today we're going to talk about the little things students do that are rude or disrespectful |
| 1:15.4 | or just annoying. The things that don't necessarily warrant some kind of formal consequence, |
| 1:20.6 | but that you just don't want to let slide every single time. |
| 1:24.0 | How should a teacher respond to things like eye rolling, teeth sucking, muttering under the breath, that kind of thing. |
| 1:30.0 | What do we do about bad attitudes? |
| 1:33.0 | Now I don't want to settle for trite rehashed info, |
| 1:36.0 | so that's why I reached out to Robin Jackson. |
| 1:38.0 | I knew she could take this conversation to a deeper level. |
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