Mistaken Behavior

Misbehavior

Behavior is a process. Basically, children aren’t born taught, they grow up one step at a time. Children have poor communication and children don’t have developmentally appropriate behavior. Children are learning how the world works. They need to be taught how to interact with their environment and society and learn how to deal with their emotions. Children behaviors are actions that they choose to meet important needs. For example, children yell, slam books, toys, used inappropriate language as a way to express their feelings. If a teacher uses punishment, children have less learning environment. Rather teacher can respond in a controlled way by helping them how to express their feelings. Misbehavior sometimes is not what it seems.

Mistaken Behavior

Mistaken behavior is when children make mistakes accidentally or intentionally, Children still learning how to act mature responses. Children are at the beginning of a lifelong learning process and will make mistakes. That’s why sometimes children’s mistaken behavior turn into a misbehavior depends how the teacher see her expectations, because children don’t know how to be capable of playing together, solve their own problems. The child doesn’t not yet have the cognitive and emotional resources to respond.

Children feel frustrated when they can’t recognize their behavior and identify what they can do. For these reasons children at early age need an adult to help them learn to resolve the problem, Teacher can help children to figure out ways to work through conflict by themselves. Teacher don’t know the problem so, teachers’ needs to intervention to identify the problem by using guidance talk and five finger formula to get a solution. First, try to cool down then discuss and agree what the problem is, after the discussion have a brainstorm for solutions, be agree on the solution and last, try it and follow up. Mistaken behavior are over, over and over again.
Some children have unmet needs, sometimes we can’t control them. It could be health conditions that are untreated, emotional suffering from experiences either at home or at school. To deal with strong needs mistaken behavior teacher uses comprehensive guidance that begins by building a positive relationships with the child by given extra time for those children who have unmet needs. Another thing that it has a big impact of unmet needs is socially influenced, children learn from parents or other adult family members; siblings or other relatives; friends and neighbors; other children in the center or school; the teacher or caregiver. Exists others needs that depends how a child have been raise since their childhood, mental and emotional issue, for example; if their environment they have alcohol and drug exposure, complications during pregnancy such as parental malnutrition or depression, premature delivery or difficult delivery, malnutrition during infancy.
All three levels of mistaken behavior have some relational pattern and motivation behind actions and behavior. Use guidance and positive discipline by working together to help the child learn from theirs mistakes by correcting them not punish them. Both children and people can learn from their mistakes. “Guidance matters.”
Misbehavior contrast mistaken behavior.

When a teacher practice their knowledge about misbehavior and mistaken behavior. Teacher can help children to gain a sense of independence, autonomy, and self-esteem. Rather than choose to punishment children, they may develop low self-esteem or think they are bad. Another discipline is help children with common early childhood situations for example; potty training, sleeping, eating. Rather than children received orders to develop those situation, for example; “You have to eat, you have to sleep right now, you have to…” Teacher can use positive approach to teach a child self-control and confidence. Rather than sees misbehavior and what the child does

wrong.
Developmentally appropriate practice (DAP). A teacher need to be understandable for the education they’re providing. This means that a teacher needs to work to help children’s engagement in their learning process. It’s very important to understand developmentally appropriate practices. A teacher who knows that concept of DAP and learn how to implement it, teacher can help children to develop their early childhood and interactive learning process guide to learn domain and intelligences and children become fully engage in learning activities. A teacher can reduce mistaken behavior using developmentally appropriate practice. On the other hand, a teacher who pushed children to do something that is not a developmentally appropriate practice may develop low self-esteem and address to school anxiety in many children.