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8 Important Aspects Educators Should Understand About Challenging Behaviors
Every educator has encountered students whose behaviors present challenges in the classroom. Whether it’s a child who consistently disrupts class, withdraws socially, or exhibits signs of emotional dysregulation, understanding the missing skills and unmet needs causing these behaviors is crucial for effectively addressing them, along with effectively managing our own emotional responses.
Personalized Greetings with “Personality-Plus”
It’s a universal “inside joke” that the kid we’d really like to have a break from is the one who is never absent. Like EVER. And while it’s kind of a joke, it’s also kind of true. Those kids can really wear us out. Did I just break some unwritten “teacher code” by saying this out loud? I hope not.
But what if we flipped the script for a moment?