CHAPTER 5

Chapter 5

Results and Discussion

Chapter 5

Results and Discussion

Chapter 5

The methodology used to categorize the techniques was analogous to constant comparative analysis of documents. Techniques classified under changing try to modify the attitudes, values, motives, beliefs, self-concepts, expectations, and so on of students so they will not have to behave in the same inappropriate manner. Hayden helping Sheila to overcome her fear and avoidance of adults is an example of a changing strategy. (Anderson, et. al.2001). Taxonomy for learning, teaching, and assessing: A revision of Bloom's taxonomy of educational objectives. New York: Addison Wesley Longman.

Managing refers to techniques that modify a situation enough to make it less likely a student will exhibit a behavior problem. Managing techniques are not designed to change a student; rather their effect is to help the students exert more self-control over their behavior until changing techniques can do their job. In the case of Sheila, Hayden certainly wants to change her fear of adults but until she can do this, she manages the situation by acknowledging feelings, assuring her she will receive the support she needs, and correcting her misunderstandings regarding relationships.

These techniques will not change Sheila's emotional reactions to adults, but they help her manage her fear so it doesn't affect how she functions in school as much. child's psychological adjustment to entry into school for the first time can have a significant impact on the level of success achieved later in life. Children rated higher in school adjustment by their elementary school teachers, as a result of improved cognitive development, showed positive attitudes toward school resulting in better school performance which lead to higher educational attainment and lower delinquency at age 19. Not one factor alone accounts for children's adjustment problems.

Therefore it is important that we take a closer look at a wide range of factors that can affect the psychological adjustment to school in early childhood. Tolerating means to accept a problem behavior temporarily. This strategy is appropriate when students cannot control all their behaviors all the time, when it will take time for educators and others to eliminate the cause of the problem, or when management techniques won't do the job. When educators tolerate students' behavior problems, they allow students to misbehave, to give up too soon, to withdraw from the group, to pout or cry over an upsetting event, and so on, because the educators know the students cannot help themselves for the moment.

They tolerate the behavior only temporarily, until they can manage it or until changing techniques affect the students so they no longer misbehave. Preventing means to prevent students from doing things that will harm them or others or infringe on the rights of others. Preventing students from harming themselves, disrupting the class, destroying other people's property by removing them from the area, or placing yourself between the students and their intended victim, and so on does not change what is causing the problem. But when an educator's managing techniques do not work, prevention is certainly ...