What's in a Word or Two

This situation reminds me a lot of a situation I saw during my observation. In the case I saw, the student seemed like a normal everyday student until the teacher gave out a written assignment. As soon as she did this, the student who was normally really compliant just shut right down and refused to the work. Unlike the case study, the student didn’t swear at the teacher, but even still he got very confrontational. Like the case study, my sponsor teacher later found out from another teacher that this student has significant issues. Comparing these two situations, I think in both cases the teachers were very much surprised by the actions of the students. From a management point-of-view, it is really difficult for a teacher to deal with a problem student who spontaneously acts out, with little or no warning. As difficult as it is though, I think the teacher still need be the one in charge and call the student on any of their inappropriate behaviour. As tough as these situations are, I think it just goes to show how important effective communications between teachers in a school really is. In both this mock scenario, and my observation scenario, other teachers in the school knew about behaviour issues relating to both students. In these cases, I think being proactive in finding out knowledge of student issues is very important, as tough and time consuming as it may be