In the teaching career, each teacher must come across at least one hard-to-teach student. It is normally not easy to deal with these kinds of students since they engage in activities that teachers do not like or are not motivated to attend lessons. This makes the learning experience difficult because both the teacher and the student experience some difficulties. Among the hard-to-teach or difficult students include the “tough kid”, reluctant and unmotivated students, and students with learning disabilities.
Tough students are those that demonstrate negative behavior everyday in school. These are common students in most school environments and they present teachers with a hard time during lessons. These students like and enjoy disrupting lessons, …show more content…
They are the type of student that are not willing to be taught and do not at all appreciate the value of going to a class to learn about something new. The teacher, regardless of passion and good intentions, is considered an irrelevant or adversarial authority figure. These types of students are reluctant to play a part in tutoring and traditional mentoring programs.
Another common group of hard-to-teach students are students with disabilities. These are the types of students that suffer from different disabilities including attention deficit disorder (ADD), learning disability, and reading disability. Normally, these students are ready and willing to learn but find it difficult to comprehend how to read and write. For teachers, it is normally time-consuming and difficult to identify strategies that can help these types of hard to teach students learn and be at par with the rest of the classroom.
Strategies for Teaching Hard-to-Teach …show more content…
Without the motivation to learn, there is no level of teaching or learning that can help unmotivated, difficult kids to learn to read and write. A teacher can also endeavor to make connections with these students through which they can encourage them to take interest in reading. As a teacher, one should not forget how important they are in helping students develop academically and socially (Rodgers, 2004). For children to become independent, self-regulated, life-long learners, they must be motivated from within. A teacher can motivate a student to become a good leaner by making them feel that there is a tangible reward they will receive at the end if they behave appropriately or complete their school work (Lyons, 2003). This can be done by for instance promising a student that they will get a certain reward if they manage to read 3 books within a certain
Tough students are those that demonstrate negative behavior everyday in school. These are common students in most school environments and they present teachers with a hard time during lessons. These students like and enjoy disrupting lessons, …show more content…
They are the type of student that are not willing to be taught and do not at all appreciate the value of going to a class to learn about something new. The teacher, regardless of passion and good intentions, is considered an irrelevant or adversarial authority figure. These types of students are reluctant to play a part in tutoring and traditional mentoring programs.
Another common group of hard-to-teach students are students with disabilities. These are the types of students that suffer from different disabilities including attention deficit disorder (ADD), learning disability, and reading disability. Normally, these students are ready and willing to learn but find it difficult to comprehend how to read and write. For teachers, it is normally time-consuming and difficult to identify strategies that can help these types of hard to teach students learn and be at par with the rest of the classroom.
Strategies for Teaching Hard-to-Teach …show more content…
Without the motivation to learn, there is no level of teaching or learning that can help unmotivated, difficult kids to learn to read and write. A teacher can also endeavor to make connections with these students through which they can encourage them to take interest in reading. As a teacher, one should not forget how important they are in helping students develop academically and socially (Rodgers, 2004). For children to become independent, self-regulated, life-long learners, they must be motivated from within. A teacher can motivate a student to become a good leaner by making them feel that there is a tangible reward they will receive at the end if they behave appropriately or complete their school work (Lyons, 2003). This can be done by for instance promising a student that they will get a certain reward if they manage to read 3 books within a certain