1. AED303 Teaching and Managing Learners At Primary Classroom

2. Characteristics of Disruptive Students sudden, unprovoked anger deliberately antagonizing others resentment and anger defiance refuses to comply with adult requests or rules argues with adults “talks back” to adults shows disrespect towards authority figures is easily annoyed by others/deliberately annoys others blames others for his/her own actions/behaviour http://web.me.com/markee/Guidebook/Start_ files/4%20f%20Disruptive%20Behaviour.pdf

3. Characteristics of Giftedness

6. Why do you think student behave in such a manner? Teacher’s Instruction  Kelvin’s questions were not answered  Teacher’s explanations were not clear

7. Do you think that the student’s behaviour is caused by any social factors (i.e. lack of care and concern from family, low self esteem, etc.)?  Attention seeking  Curiosity

8. What other disruptive behaviour do you think this student may exhibit?  Short attention span  Easily irritated

9. How do you think this behaviour will affect other students’ learning?  Cannot Concentrate  Lose interest in learning

10. What strategies will you adopt to solve this problem?  Divert the student’s attention to other questions.  Verbal Intervention  Counseling