Peer pressure
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Peer pressure
https://www.tes.com/magazine/archive/peer-pressure-3
“The long-term project of dealing with the low self-esteem and underlying causes of the behaviour is important, but teachers need to be creative about immediate consequences to avoid the constant demand on time and energy that this kind of acting out causes. Sending a child out of a class is an obvious way of withholding attention. Changing class attitudes to the two stronger boys who are provoking Billy’s disruption is a different way of tackling it. Praise from a good teacher is worth a great deal to pupils, and concentrating on and praising work from the rest of the class can go a long way to changing group dynamics.”
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