Verbal Reprimands
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ook
at the picture. What kind of teacher talk is presented? Is it
necessary to use verbal reprimands? Why/ Why not? Are there any
advantages of using reprimands in the classroom? If yes, what are
they?
Give examples of reprimands from your practice in the school. Tell your colleagues about your experience.
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Speaking
Work in group and take out the bolded bits of the text (i.e the bits of advice) and put them in a list here. Discuss why you think each piece of advice is important. Then read the text, put each piece of advice back in the right place and at the same time check whether your ideas are the same as the article.
Reading.
Read the article. What precautions are important according to the article? Find clue words. Which of them have you mentioned in your mind map?
Don’t walk away from the student as you deliver your warning. It will be interpreted as weakness. Literally stand your ground as you metaphorically do the same.
Do not scream at a student. Yelling at members of your class severely limits the way they can respond to you. Basically, it gives them two options: stand their ground and get in worse trouble or submit and lose face with their peers. If you don’t want the student to yell and be disrespectful to you, then act in kind.
Do not invade a child’s personal space during a reprimand. Doing so belittles the student and may stimulate a knee-jerk reaction by the student that makes things worse. Select a position in the classroom where you can deliver your verbal warning shot so that everyone (especially the offending student) can see and hear you clearly. If, even for a moment, a child feels you are a physical threat, your actions become indefensible to parents and the administration.
Reprimand the student immediately and by name. Do not wait until the end of class and say, “I saw some people copying off each other’s work, and I want you to know that’s against the rules.” Stop what you are doing, look directly into the eyes of the offending student, describe the disruptive behavior, describe acceptable behavior, refer to the class rules, and announce this event as a verbal warning. For instance, you could say “John, stop copying off of Megan’s paper. You know that’s unacceptable behavior. This is not a group project, so you have no business looking at anyone’s paper but your own. I don’t want to see you, or anyone else in this room, with eyes pointed anywhere but straight at your own desks. Understood?”
From: http://www.abcte.org/files/previews/preptoteach/s5_p5.html
Listening.
Watch the video ‘Classroom Management and Discipline, 6-12, Part II: Dealing with Challenging, Difficult Students’ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fpgb6-pX1DU)
What strategies impress you? Why? Which of them do you think might be useful for you?
Now watch the video again and write down the exact words that the teacher uses to deal with the student in each case.
Assessment.
Read the article by Hester L. Henderson and Ronald French ‘How To Use Verbal reprimands In a Positive Manner’
From: http://faculty.virginia.edu/ape/Articles/Henderson.How-To-Use-Verbal-Reprimands-In-A-Positive-Manner.pdf
Although this article is addressed to teachers of physical education, the authors make a number of suggestions about reprimanding students that can be relevant to all teachers. What is your view of their suggestions. Write a short opinion essay of about 200 words on the following:
Should teachers always reprimand the action and never the person?
If you need some advice on writing opinion essays, you could look at
From: http://library.bcu.ac.uk/learner/writingguides/1.15.hthttp://library.bcu.ac.uk/learner/writingguides/1.15.htm