FOUR TYPES OF STUDENTS YOU MAY SEE IN A CLASSROOM

It is rightly said teachers are constantly in the making of bigger and better human beings. Billabong High International School has exactly the teachers parents desire for their children.

However the job a teacher is at is not an easy one. A classroom is as diverse as it gets! From students all across the country, different regions as well as religion, diverse state of mind, upbringing and habits a classroom situation for a teacher is certainly full of challenges.

Here is a quick guideline or a quick insight into the types of students. This may help teachers to adopt suitable strategies to deal with situations and students of one of the following types.

There are broadly four types of students that you may find in your classroom:

1- Attention demanding students
There are students who always demand attention. They can do this by either trying to dominant each discussion or activity in the class or by being always hyper. These students may often have a valid point or answer however every student deserves equal attention and chance.
Counsel these students after the class to let others speak and give equal opportunities to their fellow friends. You can also always have a raise your hand rule and pick the ones who seldom get a chance to answer.

2- Never ready students
There will be some students in your class who are never ready with their home work or ore class assignments. Identify the one’s who are always never ready and the ones who occasionally falter.
You must make your assignment expectations clearly to the students in the very beginning. And take out time to reinstate your expectations by practical example. For instance let the whole class read out one by one the chapter you gave to read as a home assignment. This can help you identify as well as rectify the doers and the non doers.

3- Lost ones
A classroom always has some students who are often lost in their own world. They will either be staring out if the window or a pencil or something else while you are teaching. These students need to be engaged one way or the other.
Check that your method of teaching should neither be too difficult nor too easy. Try to make some fun entertaining ways of learning a part of your class to keep everyone involved and interested.

4- Rude and disrespectful students
These students cause a lot of problem in a class. They are rude and disrespectful towards their class mates as well as the teachers. They pose great danger to class discipline and proper functioning of the class.
It is best to identify such students in the very beginning and let them know the guidelines laid down by the school for civil behavior ad well as the consequences of not adhering to the same.

Every term brings in new students waiting to explore the limits and try new things. Teachers find themselves face to face with new challenges every time they enter a class room. But a child after all is a child and is way more receptive and open to learning than you think he is. All he needs is the right guidance at the right time.

Billabong School Thane let’s each student explore new possibilities with proper support at proper places.