MONDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2008

Have you ever had a student who just refused to do what you asked them too? I'm sure we have all experienced this at some point in our carreers. I can say that I've been experiencing all to much recently, especially in the past two week. What do you do? What do you say? We are all human and our initial reaction is probably to "throw the book" at the kids and slap him or her with a bunch of punitive punishments. Did you know there is a name for this behavior displayed by some of our mostchallenging students...it's call PUSHBACK. The article below is taken from the Winter edition of "Developmental Designs...A Middle School Newletter". In this article, two middle school educators discuss "PUSHBACK" situations they have experienced and how the handled them. Click below to enlarge the article or simpley print it out. You may even want to read it as a Team and discuss how you have handled "PUSHBACK" situations. After reading the article, please feel free to post a comment to this blog with your comments and experience with "PUSHBACK".

Have a great week!!!