As a SUBSTITUTE teacher, I find your video extremely NOT HELPFUL. You gave no examples, just justifications for bad principal's behaviors. I have a little time on my hands right now, so I'm going to list out MOST of the shenanigans I see in the middle/highschools after 7 years of substitute teaching. This list is CONSTANTLY GROWING because the kids are constantly coming up with new RUDE BEHAVIORS to do in the classroom. Keep in mind.... you are promoting NOT HAVING CONSEQUENCES for all of these OUTRAGEOUS BEHAVIORS..... Here's my list: 1.playing trashkitball with paperwads. 2.Breaking pencils into small pieces and throwing them. 3.Students up out of chair walking around the room 4. Throwing paper airplanes. 5. Snapping loud "paper-poppers" during class. 6. Wireless speaker hidden & play PORNO sounds 7. inkpen broken up & thrown 8. Inkpen spread ink all over the floor or on another students seat 9. SLAM their book loudly on their desk to disturb class every couple minutes 10. KNOCK under their desk to cause unnecessary distractions 11. Tap pencil constantly/wont stop 12. Trash the room with food wrappers 13. Water bottle spill on floor creating hazard. 14. WATER splash on other students 15.WATER bottle FLIP game to land right side up causes THUNK.... THUNK noise every 10 seconds! 16. EMPTY water bottle twisted until it explodes LOUDLY during class. 17 WATER bottle throw at another student 18. SPIT piece of hard candy onto floor for teacher to clean up 19. THROW raisins or cranberries from lunch room thrown at each other making MASSIVE MESS on floor. 20.Borrow teachers tape dispenser and use ALL tape making fake hand claws 21. Borrow teachers stapler and SHOOT STAPLES at other students 22. STAPLES removed from stapler and broken into chunks to throw 23. Throw things at teacher when his back is turned 24. Student stands in front of teacher to block his view of class so another student can throw something. 25. Overwhelm teacher with hoard of students wanting restroom pass & other passes 26. Student returns from restroom but wants to go AGAIN to retrieve some item left behind 27. Student request to go to another teachers room to do other work. 28. teacher walks around room assisting students, but one student IMMEDIATELY goes to teachers desk and digs through desk drawers & teachers briefcase contents. 29.CELLPHONE... kids won't stay OFF of it 30. CELLPHONE kids doing Tik-Tok dance during class 31.CELLPHONE kids watching sports, videogames & PORNO! 32 CELLPHONE playing music or disruptive sound effects LOUDLY & repeatedly. 33. Nurses pass given, but student never goes to nurse 34. Teacher giving instructions, but kids talking & ignoring teacher 35. Students YELLING OUT rude comments & irrelevant questions while teacher is talking 36. Say something to a student & they ignore you and start conversation with another student. 37. Tell students how to do assignment, and several of them later say, "What are we supposed to do? 38. Paper handout just lays on students desk & they ignore it 39.Paper handout is wadded into a ball and thrown. Then student claims you never gave them an assignment 40. Kids are so LAZY they will not bring a pencil to class. If you give them one, they will break it up and throw it. If you don't give them one, they will say they can't do the assignment! 41. GAY! Kids call each other GAY constantly 42. The "N" word, kids call each other all the time. 43.SLAP!! you're IT! and the chase is on-- all around the room! 44. HANDWASH liquid is slapped into the face of another student 45. Kids lean on the dry erase board and erase much of the instructions you wrote there 46. DRY ERASE board, kids write all over them 47. HANDOUT worksheet, kids hide it & say they never got one 48. Handout is MULTI-page, but kids only take page ONE. 49. While teacher is talking to class, student scoots his desk 2 inches to make LOUD NOISE every time you start to speak. 50.Textbook dropped onto floor to make very loud BOOM sound to disturb class every couple minutes. 51. Constant talking and socializing of kids but no work being done. 52. Pretend to steal other students item, then chasing each other. 53. Kid trashes the assignment & says you didn't give him one. 54.Rubberband snap it onto skin of other student 55.Rubberband shoot at others 56. FAKE FIGHTS/tussles/SLAPS/PUNCHES/minor struggles CONSTANTLY by many students during class 57. LOUD talking/.YELLING at each other across the room. 58. CUSSING! Some kids sound worse than sailors 59. NITPICKING the teachers clothing or jewelry or accent etc 60. INSULTING the teacher in many ways. 61. Accusing the sub of "Not Being a REAL teacher" 62. asking teacher "How OLLLD are you anyway?" 63 Trying to handshake or hug teacher is not allowed, but kids try anyway 64. Some classrooms have 3 or 4 doors & kids will sneak out of class if you turn your back. 65.Some kids will SNEAK INTO your room and they will always cause trouble. 66. THE CLOWN SHOW where kid repeats every word you say to him as a disruptive RUDE activity. 67. Refusing to sit in ASSIGNED seats causes other students to argue about it and it is ANOTHER disruption. 68. Half the class runs up to look out the window if ANYTHING happens outside. 69. Smoking in restroom & kid returns smelling like a SKUNK 70. e-cig PUFFED in class while shirt is pulled over kids head. 71.eating red hots in class, then demanding a pass to get water 72. Redhot takis ALWAYS get dropped on floor and crushed for teacher to clean up. 73. GUM chewed and stuck under desk. 74. Room lights turned off by student leaving room. 75. KNOCK at classroom door and 5 students jump up to open it... but they NEVER open it, they hold the door SHUT and play the "YOU CAN'T COME IN" game! 76. Roller Chairs, kids use as an amusement park ride. 77. YARDSTICK picked up by student and brandished as a "PLAY-SWORD" to threaten other kids 78. BATHROOM pass students INUNDATE sub with requests to go to restroom and complain "it's not his turn to go!" 79. FEET-DRAG kids do every assignment as slowly as possible. 80. Kids sit on FLOOR, top of desks, and TABLES rather than in their seats. 81. FLOCKING to teachers desk to ask 50 questions & requests to overwhelm the teacher. 82. PERSONAL QUESTIONS kids ask teacher just to waste time. 83. Student will PURPOSELY bump teacher, then say "YOU TOUCHED ME!" 84. CRAYONS broken into pieces & thrown 85. ID-BADGE kids don't wear it, they swing it around their head and smack each other with it. 86.DESK FLIPPED upside down by grabbing it's front legs while student is sitting in it & his head bashes into wall. 87.STEALING another kids workbook and writing their own name on it 88. SEX activities in hallways and restrooms DOES OCCUR in some schools 89. Cigarette lighter brought to class and flame is held against a girls dreadlocks! Luckily didn't catch fire 90. SPITTING right into another students face 91. TIK-TOK shenanigans.... Slap A Teacher Month! 92. Drawing swastikas or penises on desk or on whiteboard. 93. LOUD jokes told of sexual or racial nature 94. LAUGHING EXTREMELY LOUD AND REPEATEDLY over and over during the whole class period and WON'T STOP. 95 Hairdressing and hairweaving done during class. 96. PERFUME or AIR-FRESHENER SPRAYING onto another student 97 SLAPPING a handicapped student who could BARELY WALK because "SHE IS WEAK." 98. THERMOSTAT changing settings without permission. 99. Head down, Hoodie up, student turns off all contact with the classroom activities! 100.GROUP assignment, but kids refuse to do anything except SOCIALIZE and talk. ....................................................I have a HUNDRED and TWENTY-SEVEN M O R E ! ! of these "shenanigans" kids pull in school. Ii think you get the point. These rude activities are not occurring ONE AT A TIME. They are occurring constantly and SEVERAL AT ONCE during class! But management does not believe in CONSEQUENCES!!!! I think it is time to do what the management wants. What would happen if every time a child DOES a rude action.... the teacher gives them a candy bar? Do you think the kids would STOP doing their shenanigans, or do you think they will do MORE of them? If you take the side of ADMINISTRATORS to not have consequences, then you are part of the problem, not the solution.
Hi, as I mentioned in the video, the goal wasn’t to make excuses but to offer possible reasons for better understanding between teachers and administration. As a substitute, I know this might be challenging or not even possible However, effective communication benefits from understanding both sides, even if you don’t always agree. Personally, it has helped me when discussing how to handle behavior issues with admin. While I am sharing a principal’s perspective, it doesn’t mean I’m against consequences. In fact, if you’ve been following my content, you’ll know I strongly support and believe in the importance of consequences. This video is part of a series focused on consequences in the classroom, and I’ll be sharing more on this topic in upcoming videos. Hopefully, those will be more helpful to you. Thank you for your feedback.
After looking at your channel, it seems like you probably copy/pasted these 100 behaviors from your book. I’m not sure what you were hoping to accomplish by doing that. This channel advocates for consequences, actually. She was just helping us understand an administrator’s perspective so we can dialogue to problem-solve together, not agreeing with the administrator’s perspective.
The sound quality on this video is bad. But essentially, principals don’t want teachers doing their own thing in terms of manipulating the kids because from the administrator’s standpoint they’re in the public relations business, selling an intangible product, and they believe in nonsense such as the phrase “I don’t teach math I teach kids”. This is nonsense on the face of it because it begs the question “then what exactly are you teaching the kids”? In reality teachers are expected to be able to control the kids and if they cannot do that then they always get fired or at least asked to resign. Teachers are better off just quitting. It is inevitable that teachers will be largely automated out of existence. The screens have won and the public schools will be converted to brick & mortar online academy eventually. With tutors, not teachers.
Hi Marc, I agree that we are not preparing our students for the real world by how consequences are implemented or not implemented in many schools. It will be interesting to see if the screens win out in the future. I do want to say that not all schools or principals are failing in the consequence department. I have seen a few really good set ups. I also share your question of "What are we teaching our kids?" and even further, "What type of society are we cultivating?" Thanks for your comment:)
As a SUBSTITUTE teacher, I find your video extremely NOT HELPFUL. You gave no examples, just justifications for bad principal's behaviors. I have a little time on my hands right now, so I'm going to list out MOST of the shenanigans I see in the middle/highschools after 7 years of substitute teaching. This list is CONSTANTLY GROWING because the kids are constantly coming up with new RUDE BEHAVIORS to do in the classroom. Keep in mind.... you are promoting NOT HAVING CONSEQUENCES for all of these OUTRAGEOUS BEHAVIORS..... Here's my list: 1.playing trashkitball with paperwads. 2.Breaking pencils into small pieces and throwing them. 3.Students up out of chair walking around the room 4. Throwing paper airplanes. 5. Snapping loud "paper-poppers" during class. 6. Wireless speaker hidden & play PORNO sounds 7. inkpen broken up & thrown 8. Inkpen spread ink all over the floor or on another students seat 9. SLAM their book loudly on their desk to disturb class every couple minutes 10. KNOCK under their desk to cause unnecessary distractions 11. Tap pencil constantly/wont stop 12. Trash the room with food wrappers 13. Water bottle spill on floor creating hazard. 14. WATER splash on other students 15.WATER bottle FLIP game to land right side up causes THUNK.... THUNK noise every 10 seconds! 16. EMPTY water bottle twisted until it explodes LOUDLY during class. 17 WATER bottle throw at another student 18. SPIT piece of hard candy onto floor for teacher to clean up 19. THROW raisins or cranberries from lunch room thrown at each other making MASSIVE MESS on floor. 20.Borrow teachers tape dispenser and use ALL tape making fake hand claws 21. Borrow teachers stapler and SHOOT STAPLES at other students 22. STAPLES removed from stapler and broken into chunks to throw 23. Throw things at teacher when his back is turned 24. Student stands in front of teacher to block his view of class so another student can throw something. 25. Overwhelm teacher with hoard of students wanting restroom pass & other passes 26. Student returns from restroom but wants to go AGAIN to retrieve some item left behind 27. Student request to go to another teachers room to do other work. 28. teacher walks around room assisting students, but one student IMMEDIATELY goes to teachers desk and digs through desk drawers & teachers briefcase contents. 29.CELLPHONE... kids won't stay OFF of it 30. CELLPHONE kids doing Tik-Tok dance during class 31.CELLPHONE kids watching sports, videogames & PORNO! 32 CELLPHONE playing music or disruptive sound effects LOUDLY & repeatedly. 33. Nurses pass given, but student never goes to nurse 34. Teacher giving instructions, but kids talking & ignoring teacher 35. Students YELLING OUT rude comments & irrelevant questions while teacher is talking 36. Say something to a student & they ignore you and start conversation with another student. 37. Tell students how to do assignment, and several of them later say, "What are we supposed to do? 38. Paper handout just lays on students desk & they ignore it 39.Paper handout is wadded into a ball and thrown. Then student claims you never gave them an assignment 40. Kids are so LAZY they will not bring a pencil to class. If you give them one, they will break it up and throw it. If you don't give them one, they will say they can't do the assignment! 41. GAY! Kids call each other GAY constantly 42. The "N" word, kids call each other all the time. 43.SLAP!! you're IT! and the chase is on-- all around the room! 44. HANDWASH liquid is slapped into the face of another student 45. Kids lean on the dry erase board and erase much of the instructions you wrote there 46. DRY ERASE board, kids write all over them 47. HANDOUT worksheet, kids hide it & say they never got one 48. Handout is MULTI-page, but kids only take page ONE. 49. While teacher is talking to class, student scoots his desk 2 inches to make LOUD NOISE every time you start to speak. 50.Textbook dropped onto floor to make very loud BOOM sound to disturb class every couple minutes. 51. Constant talking and socializing of kids but no work being done. 52. Pretend to steal other students item, then chasing each other. 53. Kid trashes the assignment & says you didn't give him one. 54.Rubberband snap it onto skin of other student 55.Rubberband shoot at others 56. FAKE FIGHTS/tussles/SLAPS/PUNCHES/minor struggles CONSTANTLY by many students during class 57. LOUD talking/.YELLING at each other across the room. 58. CUSSING! Some kids sound worse than sailors 59. NITPICKING the teachers clothing or jewelry or accent etc 60. INSULTING the teacher in many ways. 61. Accusing the sub of "Not Being a REAL teacher" 62. asking teacher "How OLLLD are you anyway?" 63 Trying to handshake or hug teacher is not allowed, but kids try anyway 64. Some classrooms have 3 or 4 doors & kids will sneak out of class if you turn your back. 65.Some kids will SNEAK INTO your room and they will always cause trouble. 66. THE CLOWN SHOW where kid repeats every word you say to him as a disruptive RUDE activity. 67. Refusing to sit in ASSIGNED seats causes other students to argue about it and it is ANOTHER disruption. 68. Half the class runs up to look out the window if ANYTHING happens outside. 69. Smoking in restroom & kid returns smelling like a SKUNK 70. e-cig PUFFED in class while shirt is pulled over kids head. 71.eating red hots in class, then demanding a pass to get water 72. Redhot takis ALWAYS get dropped on floor and crushed for teacher to clean up. 73. GUM chewed and stuck under desk. 74. Room lights turned off by student leaving room. 75. KNOCK at classroom door and 5 students jump up to open it... but they NEVER open it, they hold the door SHUT and play the "YOU CAN'T COME IN" game! 76. Roller Chairs, kids use as an amusement park ride. 77. YARDSTICK picked up by student and brandished as a "PLAY-SWORD" to threaten other kids 78. BATHROOM pass students INUNDATE sub with requests to go to restroom and complain "it's not his turn to go!" 79. FEET-DRAG kids do every assignment as slowly as possible. 80. Kids sit on FLOOR, top of desks, and TABLES rather than in their seats. 81. FLOCKING to teachers desk to ask 50 questions & requests to overwhelm the teacher. 82. PERSONAL QUESTIONS kids ask teacher just to waste time. 83. Student will PURPOSELY bump teacher, then say "YOU TOUCHED ME!" 84. CRAYONS broken into pieces & thrown 85. ID-BADGE kids don't wear it, they swing it around their head and smack each other with it. 86.DESK FLIPPED upside down by grabbing it's front legs while student is sitting in it & his head bashes into wall. 87.STEALING another kids workbook and writing their own name on it 88. SEX activities in hallways and restrooms DOES OCCUR in some schools 89. Cigarette lighter brought to class and flame is held against a girls dreadlocks! Luckily didn't catch fire 90. SPITTING right into another students face 91. TIK-TOK shenanigans.... Slap A Teacher Month! 92. Drawing swastikas or penises on desk or on whiteboard. 93. LOUD jokes told of sexual or racial nature 94. LAUGHING EXTREMELY LOUD AND REPEATEDLY over and over during the whole class period and WON'T STOP. 95 Hairdressing and hairweaving done during class. 96. PERFUME or AIR-FRESHENER SPRAYING onto another student 97 SLAPPING a handicapped student who could BARELY WALK because "SHE IS WEAK." 98. THERMOSTAT changing settings without permission. 99. Head down, Hoodie up, student turns off all contact with the classroom activities! 100.GROUP assignment, but kids refuse to do anything except SOCIALIZE and talk. ....................................................I have a HUNDRED and TWENTY-SEVEN M O R E ! ! of these "shenanigans" kids pull in school. Ii think you get the point. These rude activities are not occurring ONE AT A TIME. They are occurring constantly and SEVERAL AT ONCE during class! But management does not believe in CONSEQUENCES!!!! I think it is time to do what the management wants. What would happen if every time a child DOES a rude action.... the teacher gives them a candy bar? Do you think the kids would STOP doing their shenanigans, or do you think they will do MORE of them? If you take the side of ADMINISTRATORS to not have consequences, then you are part of the problem, not the solution.
Hi, as I mentioned in the video, the goal wasn’t to make excuses but to offer possible reasons for better understanding between teachers and administration. As a substitute, I know this might be challenging or not even possible
However, effective communication benefits from understanding both sides, even if you don’t always agree. Personally, it has helped me when discussing how to handle behavior issues with admin.
While I am sharing a principal’s perspective, it doesn’t mean I’m against consequences. In fact, if you’ve been following my content, you’ll know I strongly support and believe in the importance of consequences.
This video is part of a series focused on consequences in the classroom, and I’ll be sharing more on this topic in upcoming videos. Hopefully, those will be more helpful to you. Thank you for your feedback.
After looking at your channel, it seems like you probably copy/pasted these 100 behaviors from your book. I’m not sure what you were hoping to accomplish by doing that. This channel advocates for consequences, actually. She was just helping us understand an administrator’s perspective so we can dialogue to problem-solve together, not agreeing with the administrator’s perspective.
The sound quality on this video is bad. But essentially, principals don’t want teachers doing their own thing in terms of manipulating the kids because from the administrator’s standpoint they’re in the public relations business, selling an intangible product, and they believe in nonsense such as the phrase “I don’t teach math I teach kids”. This is nonsense on the face of it because it begs the question “then what exactly are you teaching the kids”? In reality teachers are expected to be able to control the kids and if they cannot do that then they always get fired or at least asked to resign. Teachers are better off just quitting. It is inevitable that teachers will be largely automated out of existence. The screens have won and the public schools will be converted to brick & mortar online academy eventually. With tutors, not teachers.
Hi Marc, I agree that we are not preparing our students for the real world by how consequences are implemented or not implemented in many schools. It will be interesting to see if the screens win out in the future. I do want to say that not all schools or principals are failing in the consequence department. I have seen a few really good set ups. I also share your question of "What are we teaching our kids?" and even further, "What type of society are we cultivating?" Thanks for your comment:)