Troublesome Students

Now most of my classes are enjoyable and are fairly well behaved. Sometimes, students will do something wrong but it's not too bad. However, in my first grade classes. There are a couple of students that like to create problems. They yell, push other students, write on the wall and desk. They take pencil cases from fellow students and disrespect the teacher. One student is a American who has a Korean mother so he acts up to get attention. Maybe his peers don't accept him and he doesn't have many friends. He is actualy very smart. He might be higher level than his grade. He also blurts out the correct answers but usually disrupts the class. But there is not much you can do about that. The other students that usually create trouble are friends and they like to take things from other students. They argue with the teacher and my co-teacher and I usually have him sit at the back of the room. But it doesn't seem to work very well. One student curses at the teacher as this student doesn't realize that it is wrong to do such things. It's kind of sad actually.

In my fifth grade class, there are several troubemakers. In fact, they usually sit next to each other which doesn't help the other students. We try to separate them from their peers so they don't create trouble but it doesn't prevent them for doing wrong. The discipline in this class is very similar to 1st and 2nd graders as it is the same teacher. I want to change the disciplinary actions but the problem is I only have the class once a week. And I wasn't in the first class when the rules were stated so I don't have the same authority. Now when I teach, I do discipline kids but to the co-teachers standards because she has them more than I do. I just think she should change some of her disciplinary punishments.

I'm sorry to say this but Korean kids need to be hit for discipline. It's tradition, it's what worked well to keep kids respectful to the rules. Now with the law, forbidding the action, it allows students to push the teachers' nerves. Korean kids nowadays are becoming arrogant, more like American and disrespectful. My alternative would be to instead punish people around the troublesome kid whenever he does something wrong. That way everyone will try to be good so that no one gets in trouble. I mean if a student acts out and his classmates get in trouble, those classmates will be very angry with him and set him straight. Another way could be to make them write sentences during lunch. I will not take so and so's pencil case. I will not write on the wall and so on. Otherwise the kids enjoy getting in trouble and will continue to do it more and more. I love kids but sometimes you want to strangle them, lol.