Education

Running head: EDUCATION
Education
Name of the student:
Name of the University:
Author’s note

1EDUCATION
Two discussions
1. 1st discussion:
Research suggests that teachers are the key to student learning. Based on the review of
the chapter 1 of the book by Levin and Nolan (2014), my opinion is that teacher’s indeed play an
important role in influencing student behaviour and their learning process. This has been said
because learning environment of student is shaped by teacher’s behaviour. They play a role in
teaching techniques to student that supports them to efficiently complete task. They are able to
identify weak points or areas of improvement for student and use those understanding to
accurately modify learning skills of student. This is supported by the research evidence by Buhl-
Wiggers et al. (2017) as the author believes that teacher’s behaviour and their teacher’s quality is
critical for student’s education and their life prospects in the future. The research revealed that by
increasing the quality of teaching, educational interventions for target pupil becomes more
efficient.
I regard teachers as vital for student learning and controlling their behaviour because they
engage in appropriate instructional activities to promote development of children. Efficient
teachers are those who are able to recognize the special learning abilities or weakness of students
and use those knowledge to modify learning patterns and promote students to actively participate
n learning. Teachers also have access to several authority base to influence student’s behaviour
and make them proficient during the learning process. However, it can be said that student’s
learning achievement is dependent on teacher’s efficacy. Efficacious teachers are able to exhibit
greater effort and willingness to try new teaching methods to meet the learning needs of student
(Donohoo, 2016).

2EDUCATION
1. 2nd discussion:
Students are not the same, they have changed. These changes have occurred due to the
cumulative effect of societal changes on student’s behaviour. When looking at the student’s
behaviour two-three decades ago, students used to respect teachers and had intense value for
them. However, the same behaviour cannot be expected from students today. Today teachers
cannot demand respect from student just based on their title. In contrast, many incidences of
students misbehaving with teachers has been reported. However, instead of taking disciplinary
action against disruptive behaviour of students, there is a need to assess what conditions facilitate
such behaviour in students. This is seen because of the presence of several issues in community
today such as drugs and alcohol abuse, unemployment, abuse and teenage pregnancy. Children
experiencing these types of issues in society are most likely to show disruptive behaviour in
school. There are various studies which have given evidence regarding the disruptive classroom
behaviour of students. Pas et al. (2015) has reported about an alarming increase in disruptive
behaviour in classroom and the evidence suggested that disruptive behaviour might be linked to
psychological problem and emotional problems in student. Hence, the challenge for teachers
today is to learn new behaviour modification technique to appropriately deal with misbehaving
student.
Levin and Nolan (2014) explain there is likelihood of experiencing disruptive behaviour in
school because schools bring together many conditions that leads to misbehaviour. For example,
as large number of diverse student group still learning socially acceptable behaviour are
concentrated in one place and inappropriate student-teacher interaction lead to frustration among
students. Hence, teachers need to master skills that help them to effectively deal with disruptive
classroom behaviours.