I worked with more than my fair share, usually after a few weeks, they realise I am not some big bad wolf and warm to me. I’v even had a few who have apologised for being rude and aggressive towards me. I know strategies, I do the whole Postive rewards/ punishment thing (Skinner’s theory). It has always worked, no matter how old the child is and what type of home/school situation they have.
But lo and behold, I seem to have met my match. This child is disruptive, rude, arrogant, spoilt, has difficultly with authority and very poor listening and concentration skills. He is academically fine, he needs one to one support with his behaviour and concentration.
I tried a few “get to know me sessions”, we played a few games and I spoke about myself and he did the same. We spoke about rules and respecting others, he seems fine in a one on one situation. As soon as there are other children, he begins shouting at me, using profanities, becomes aggressive and to put it simply, does not like me being around him. I think it’s a pride thing. So when I move away and help other children, he joins the table and tells the other children to not talk to me. So its like he wants my attention, but he doesnt at the same time.
Today he wrote something offence about me for all the other little darlings to read, laughed about it, and then went on to tell all the other children to ignore me and tell me to shut up if i spoke to them. So soon enough everysingle child in the class begin being “diffcult” - ( I am being nice with that word).
I don’t know what to do, he’s turned the whole class against me and takes pleasure at the other children being rude towards me.
The deputy head had a word with them, so now it’s like, he got what he wanted. He thinks I’m afaid of him as I told the head teacher, but I had to, they need to know of any kind of incidents.