How Do I Match Invention Structures

to Various Types of Disruption?

(Kagan)
ANG WEE SHIN
NUR ATHIRAH
VAISHINI
KARISHMMA
Interventions
Actions teachers take to deal with disruptions.
It involves a structure the teacher applies to stop the disruption and help
students return to appropriate behaviour.

Types of
Disruption
Uninformed
Attention-Seeking
Behaviour
Boredom
Control-Seeking
Behaviour
Attempts to Avoid
Failure or
Embarrassment
Anger
Overly Energetic
Interventions for Attention-
Seeking Behaviour
Strong need for attention
Wants to know others care about them
Behave undesirably when they feel left out
Interrupt, show off, annoy others, work more slowly than others, ask for extra help, goof off
What You Can Do
Use physical proximity and hand or facial signals to stop the disruption
Provide additional personal attention, appreciation and affirmation
Eg. Helping others or doing exemplary work
Meeting up with disruptive students and discussing the need for attention
Helping students strengthen their self-concepts
Acquire the skills involved in self-validation
Interventions for Attempts to
Avoid Failure or Embarrassment
Rationalise our inadequacies in order to soften the embarrassment of failure
Do not like to appear inept
Not trying and keep think of failure
What You Can Do
Encourage students to try to complete the task
Assign them to partners or helpers
Reorganise the task into smaller pieces
Tell them responsible people might deal with fear or failure
Peer support
team-pair-solo, students practice first as a team and then in pairs before doing the
assigned activities by themselves
Interventions for Anger
Natural rection that involve frustration, humiliation, loss, pain
Angry students may act out in unacceptable ways because they do not know how to deal
their emotions.
What You Can Do
Retaliate against the students
Win- win Discipline provides several structures to help you respond positively to angry
disruptions, three of those are : teaching responsible ways of handling anger, allow students
to cool down and think, tabling the matter for attention at a later time.
Long- term intervention: having students practice the skills of self- control and teach them
how to resolve conflicts in a positive manner.

Interventions for Control-
Seeking Behaviour
Students display this take- charge attitude by disregarding or defying directions from the
teacher.
They often counter in ways that show their dominance, which does little to help the
students.
What You Can Do
Acknowledge the students power, use language of choice such as You may either
or, or provide options for how and when work is to be done.
for follow- up you might schedule a conference or class meeting at a later time to discuss
the situation.
Ask the class why they think students often struggle against the teacher and consider how
much struggles can be avoided.
Long- term strategies : including students in decision making process, request their help to
establishclass agreement about showing respect for teachers and friends.