I took the 2 NA classes for NAPFA 2.4km run retest today.
There's this boy 'S' in the first class who is notorious for his behaviour - talking back and confronting teachers, not complying with instructions, not doing work in class. I argued with him a few times during Practicum too, and rarely can I get him to produce any work for my literature class then. He hangs out with 2 other kids who are only slightly less to deal with; the three often wander around during PE by themselves, or talk together in class. The last NAPFA test, they missed it because they were detained for coming late to school, then went to classroom and slacked while waiting for the rest to return.
This morning, they took the run test for the first time. Amazingly, S went running from the start and never stopped, while his silly friend took a shortcut, tried running backwards, and played the fool. S eventually came back first in the detail with a very respectable time.
Me and the other teacher can't help but urged him on every round, and when he ended the run I went over to commend him on his effort. In the manner of a serious athlete, he said he doesn't as well as before, since he hasn't been running for a long while. I figured that perhaps he used to be in the running team of his primary school.
Might this be the only thing in his life that he is willing to be serious about? Their English teacher once told me that he lost both his parents, and probably have no idea why he should be disciplined or doing anything good in school. How can I help, I wonder.
5 comments:
Perhaps, just some suggestions -
1. provide him a role model
2. give him constant encouragement, and recognition; reward the good behaviour, frown upon the bad.
Find out what he likes to do and encourage him from there. If running is something he can do well in, you have a good platform to encourage him to work on.
I agree with Roland there. Find something he likes or excels in and encourage him. I think you did the correct first step in commending him.
Unfortunately, I do not teach his class anymore except for PE. But then again, there are lots more others in my 3NT class to work on.
Trying to affect changes in behaviour and attitude is such a slow process, and we probably will not see the result even in a year or two. I just have to do something good everyday for them to model after and hope for the best.
check if there's any competition he can join....dun think your has track and field or x country rite? he can still join this kind of competition even without this kind of cca in sch. so if he is interested help him to join lor...would b good for him to have something to look forward to. somemore can get cca marks....guess sports is always a good starting point to get students on track.
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