- Prayer– Start the day with a prayer to ask the Lord guidance for every activity that you will undertake. Pray for the students especially those you considered as problem to you. Asked the Lord to transform them to be a better person and students. If you have strong faith in God everything is possible to Him.
- Be aware of students’ uniqueness– Each student has its own traits and qualities. Do not consider those with negative attitudes as teachers’ enemy, but rather special students who need extra loving care. Try your best to win him in your side by talking to him nicely and explain his mistakes.
- Identify the problems you encounter with your students– With that think of the best solution that will be effective to each problem and apply it. If did not work out try another solution. If every solution you have tested still did not solve the problem, probably you can call the parents to discuss with them the problems or endorsed the student to the school guidance counselor.
- Always exercise positive approach to problems– Instead of throwing bad words just keep calm, and talk calmly and nicely. Remember that if you are in a height of anger it’s difficult to control our temper that will result to uttering bad words to your students. Saying bad words is a form of child abuse that we can commit against the student.
- Organized a good seat plan– Assigned student with undesirable behavior to sit beside responsible students so that he can’t be influence by others with the same attitude and behavior but rather be motivated with desirable deeds.
- Reserve extra time for counseling– After classes talk to problem students to discuss with them why they need to show discipline and be obedient to their teachers, maybe some of them has serous family problems needing extra attention. You will have a chance to find out the reason why they developed such negative attitudes and because of that encounter, the more you will love and understand the students.
- Endorse the problem with the guidance counselor– The last step that you will do is to endorse the problem with the guidance counselor. After you have done your best in trying to motivate students to change his attitude, but still doing the same thing, it is the duty of the guidance counselor to solve the problem.
By: Mrs. Ofelia B. Reyes/ TeacherIII / Limay National HIghschool
