Health and social services

Abstract

Persistent classroom misbehavior constitutes a serious problem for the student, for his classmates, for his teacher, and ultimately for the community as a whole.Chronic misconduct appears to be essentially aggressive in character since it involves defiance, destructiveness, rule breaking, class disruption, cruelty, and fighting. Efficient learning in the classroom becomes virtually impossible when the teacher and students are frequently diverted from the learning task by aggressively troublesome students.Beyond his immediate impact, the aggressive child may exert more lasting harmful effects upon the climate of the classroom. Other children may imitate his misbehavior, thus reducing still further the opportunities for learning. The teacher may become increasingly watchful and decreasingly instructive.