Disruptive Behaviour Case Study

Introduction

In this report, I discuss different strategies for dealing with the disruptive behaviour of students in a classroom. The topic of our group poster is "Behaviour management and development" in which we researched developmental and social aspects of human behaviour, especially in the active learning environment. Behaviour management is an effective tool in the hands of all practitioners to deal with anti-social behaviour. It does not only assist teachers to boost their confidence but also help them to ensure effective learning process is taking place. A functional behaviour policy represents that school 's inclusion and diversity policy is functional too. No doubt, schools have behaviour management policy in place for their staff to manage unacceptable behaviour.

Smith and M.J. Apter 's Reversal theory to understand the complexity of motivational and emotional phenomenon behind the complex human behaviour. Reversal theory introduced in the early 1970s, created, and developed by K. C. P. Smith and M. J. Apter, to understand psychological, motivational, and emotional states of reversal in a child. "The primary aim of reversal theory is to show that the various aspects of a wide range of types of experience and behaviour may be explained with reference to certain pairs of states and reversals which occur between them." (Apter, 2003; Reversal Theory Society,

I interviewed all three students after their lessons to investigate the reasons behind their disruptive behaviour.

Surprisingly their replies were not different from the qualitative research by Nardi & Steward (2003), which is the most prominent analysis of