Disrespectful students

Learn how to manage one of the biggest challenges of teaching: Six disrespectful students in the same class. Yikes!

Is there a way to keep kids from eye rolling, teeth sucking, and muttering under their breath every time you give a direction?

I often hear from teachers who in long missives describe awful behavior towards them. They describe angry, argumentative, and aggressively disrespectful students. Students who tell them off and try to disrupt and sabotage their class. Students who roll their eyes and refuse to look ... Read more

One of the biggest classroom management mistakes teachers make is taking disrespectful behavior personally. To quote Tom Hagen speaking to Sonny Corleone in the movie The Godfather, “This is business, not personal.” When you take disrespectful behavior personally, two things are likely to happen: ... Read more

4 ways to handle a disrespectful student

With over 500,000 page views, How To Handle Disrespectful Students is one of the most popular articles on this website—and for good reason. A disrespectful student can get under a teacher’s skin like almost nothing else. When confronted with disrespect, it’s easy to take ... Read more

Know the best way to respond when a student disrespectfully poses a question meant to trip you up and get the class to turn against you.

Do you hide the truth from difficult students? Do you give them false praise? In the name of encouragement, most teachers do. But if you want lasting improvement in their behavior, then you have to be brutally honest with them. Difficult students don’t benefit ... Read more

Since returning to in-person learning, respect has taken a nosedive. Students are just different. We all see it. We all know it. The question is, what to do about it? Well, the usual keys are still in play. Clear Boundaries 100% Consistency Calm Enforcement ... Read more

Disrespectful students can throw even the most seasoned teachers for a loop. This one-minute viral video offers brilliant strategies to help.