Home Hot Topics Articles Directors' Choice Awards About Us / Contact Us Activities & Curriculum Activities for Outcome-Based Learning Arts & Crafts Music for Learning Recommended Reading Sharing Boards: What Do YOU Think? NEWSlink Current National News Conference Calendar Topics In Early Childhood Education Art and Creativity in Early Childhood Education Job Sharing Board State Licensing Requirements Stay Connected! Each month we'll send you an email filled with articles and ideas for your classroom. Subscribe Now Date: 4/3/2007 10:14:00 AM Author: Subject: help! this is April. I wish I read this thread at day one of the school year. I do what you recommend on the above post with "Mike". However, I have numerous "Mikes" (and a couple of girls too) who just choose to do the wrong thing. There communication skills are fine. I tried praise, modeling, the works. We now resorted to stickers and candy to try to get the group in line. It can be Hell in my room. They even cancelled class one day when both me and the co-teacher had to go to a training! They do tell us if we want them to behave we better give them candy. We sat the group down, discussed our feelings, and tossed out the candy. The response, one boy said "Now you're in trouble Teacher." Earlier in the year, when we just did the positive reinforcers, the kids would reply back to us "Whatever" and just walk away. If we tried to redirect, we were called "Meanies", games are "boring baby games". we often hear "I hate YOU. or "I hate SCHOOL". I never seen a bigger bunch of unruly disrespectful kids in a class of 4-5 yrs old. Parents are of little help. They did nothing last yr to stop the disrespect, and wild behavior. This yr it is fully ingrained in the kids. Our boss does little to support us, do you think we should have had parents pick their kids up after so many incidences of name-calling/ hitting ? What discipline can you do for disrespect? I'm already planning for a 'what if we get another class like this'. now, I just say to myself.....**May 23rd** Name: Email: Subject

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