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difficult student
By Cathy-Dee

With this student you do have a number of factors that has created this situation.

- first you are the student teacher - it takes time to build a repor with any class and even longer with the more difficult students.

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this is an older grade - students at this age are more difficult to control simply with classroom management techniques. You can't simply reward them with stickers.
- the subject matter - algegra is difficult for some students and if it is for this student, then acting out becomes an avoidance mechanism for her.
Calling the parents seems to help at least short term - sometimes you

have to look for other things as well. Can she be kept after-school? What about a weekly phone-call home where you will either have great postive things to say or less positive - and it's in her "court" as to what you will end up saying.

Keep asking your cooperating teacher for advice and other teachers as well. You will get these kind of students throughout your teaching career in almost any grade so although she is a frustration, you may end up learning some valuable techniques that will help you later in your own classroom.