Just let them know that if it happens again, a rule will be enforced.
There is no need to wait for them to respond or apologize-though they often will. It’s a courtesy for their benefit and future reference. You don’t have to go on and on or show your disappointment. In this case, be sure to let them know later in the day that the way they spoke to you isn’t okay. However, many students nowadays don’t even know they’re being disrespectful. Here at SCM, we don’t recommend talking to students about their misbehavior-lectures, whys, questions, hash-it-outs, should-have-dones, etc.-except under certain specific circumstances. When you show that it doesn’t get under your skin, that you don’t take their disrespect personally, students stop doing it. Return to what you were doing as if nothing happened. Follow your classroom management plan as written, then turn and walk away. Then handle it with strength by simply enforcing. Let their attention fall to you to see what you’ll do. Let their disrespect echo and breathe so they and everyone within earshot knows what it is. If a student does behave disrespectfully, do not react. They’ll approach you politely and with greater appreciation. They’ll move to fulfill your directions faster. Your students will regard your words with more weight and relevance. When you speak, let your instructions and directives hang heavy in the air. Pause often and for longer periods of time than you ever have. Here at SCM, we’ve long promoted the importance and power of strategic pausing. Vulnerability may have worked in the past, but it’s no longer helpful if you’re among the many teachers experiencing an increase of incivility. Never let them see you unsure of yourself. Make up your mind quickly or tell students you’ll get back to them with your decision. Lean on plain yeses and nos and avoid hemming and hawing and showing uncertainty. Be straightforward with your directions and instruction. Refrain from qualifiers, suggestions, and thinking out loud. Tell students what you want and what you expect. Rather, deepen your sound and enunciate fully.Ĭlarity in manner and projection afford you greater esteem and politeness and will enhance your natural charisma and leadership abilities. This doesn’t mean raising your volume, necessarily. Use your adult voice, even with younger students. Speak this way around students in the post-Covid age, and they’ll disregard you with a roll of the eyes and wave of the hand.
They’ll be less likely to lie, make excuses, and shirk responsibility, which are behaviors that are also on the rise. They may feel uncomfortable.īut they’ll be far less likely to be disrespectful to you. Yes, they may squirm at first until they get used to a strong leader.
Look into students as you interact with them. Seek out visual connections as you teach and move about your room. Turn to look at-even bore in on-every speaking student. Sloppiness, casualness, or resembling your students does not.Įye contact has always been important, but now you must direct it purposefully. Some formality shows class and consistency. Your clothes need not be expensive, but clean, sharp, and pressed is a must. You must not only follow through like a leader, but look like one also. Walk and move with purpose or stand still and in one place.įace your students head on. You must take up space by standing tall with your shoulders back and head up. Timid and weak postures, stances, and movements don’t cut it. With that in mind, what follows are seven teacher behaviors that when combined will reduce or eliminate any surge in disrespect upending your classroom. It’s the way you interact with students that needs to take on greater significance. Those we recommend here at SCM don’t, and shouldn’t, change. However, the time has come for something more. Fail on this front and the battles will be constant, the disrespect unrelenting. Keeping your cool regardless of what a student does or says, and doing what you say you’re going to do, are now more important than ever before. Since returning to in-person learning, respect has taken a nosedive.
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