Behavior Management | How to Manage Defiant Student Behaviors

What do you do when a student willfully and intentionally refuses to follow directions in your classroom? In today's video, I am sharing four strategies you can use to address and manage DEFIANT student behaviors.

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👋Hi! I'm Michele and I provide practical strategies and implementation know-how for teachers and school staff who want to THRIVE not just survive in the area of behavior and classroom management.

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[coraleemathews]

30+ year teacher and I just want to say EXCELLENT ADVICE!

[PaulaNelson-mj]

Though I am researching strategies for school bus drivers, What you have shared is valid for that application as well and I will be implementing your ideas. Sincerely appreciate your help and precision of sharing.

[Enzo-fclw]

The link to "TO LEARN HOW TO DEVELOP A CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT SYSTEM" does not seem to be working. Can you provide a new link? Thanks so much for your excellent advice! I very much appreciate it.

[Flowerpower-ub]

Can you do a video on cell phones in class? I mean defiant students that refuse to put away phones.

[manicpixiegodcomplex]

I'm about to start teaching 8th grade ELA at a Title 1 school. Nearly all of the students are below the poverty line, many are ELL, they are reading at a fifth grade level on average, many have behavioral problems, and many already work outside of school/miss school to support their family. One of my students is being severely bullied by her classmates because she is pregnant.

To make it all worse, they have not had a teacher for the two months they've been in school already. They've had a long-term sub who has not finished her degree and is not completing it in education or English! She's told me herself she's just going through the motions at this point because she did not expect to be subbing for so long. My only teaching experience is with young elementary schoolers. I taught online summer writing courses. I'm fresh out of college as of this year.

I've been binging your videos, and they are very reassuring. I'm happy to see that you're still uploading regularly! That being said, do you have any advice for teaching at a school like the one I will soon be at, especially after the kids have not had structure all year? I've met the kids, and they seem relieved that they will have a teacher for the rest of the year soon. They even seem excited to get to know me. Unfortunately, now they're even further behind than they already were at the beginning of the year...