Classroom Management Critical Incidents

Start playing with your cell phone and do not pay attention to the teacher.

Talk with your group mates and ignore the teacher.

Put your head on the desk and act really bored.

Chant to the teacher: “Game game game game game game!!”

Throw paper at your friend. Get your friend to throw it back.

Do your homework from another class.

Fight with your classmate in Korean.

Bother the person sitting next to you by tapping them on the shoulder when they are trying to pay attention to the teacher.

Talk loudly while the teacher is talking.

Fall asleep!

Pretend you don’t understand anything the teacher is saying Pretend you don’t understand anything the teacher is saying. Ask the teacher to explain in Korean!!

Answer everything the teacher asks Answer everything the teacher asks. Act like the highest-level student who knows everything. Don’t give other students a chance to interact.

One student hits another student and they both start crying

Tell the teacher you want to work with your friend who is sitting at a different table. Don’t give up – keep bothering.

Disrupt the teacher while they are teaching Disrupt the teacher while they are teaching. Bother them by asking irrelevant questions.

Tell your teacher that the class is boring. His/her teaching is boring.

Act angry for no reason.