How to overcome behavioural and attendance problems in young people?
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You have to keep them interested in whatever you do. It's not just young people. If a 28 year old person hates where s/he works it's very likely s/he will not attend and have behavioural problems also. If you can engage with them on a personal level or at least appear to understand what they are going through, it is likely they'll attend.
They're all individuals with their own backgrounds. Try not to see them as something to conquer and overcome.
Behavioral problems start way before they go to school. Its amazing how when 'Johnny' is 2 its cute when he acts out. Its not so cute when 'Johnny' is 14.
The important thing is to remember that the behaviors are occuring because of the youth's emotions/feelings. Focus on WHY they're behaving a certain way rather than focusing on consequencing the behaviors. As for attendance, perhaps they're being bullied.or perhaps they're struggling academically and afraid to tell you...perhaps they're bored and not being challenged.peer pressure. That's a tougher one to address.
it really depends if they are your children or children you are teaching...and what the behaviours are...could you please be more specific?
"attendance" - I guess you are teaching / lecturing.
What you need is engagement, not just attendance. Engagement is linked to motivation. Get them motivated and a lot of the rest will follow. You could look at Herzberg's stuff on motivation. That work deals with motivators and de-motivators (what he calls "hygiene factors").
To motivate them you need to identify what it is that will increase their self esteem, that links to their experience, and links to their goals. So, what are they good at (could be sport, mobile phone use, IT, dancing..)? Can you link that to your classes/sessions? Are they made to suffer "death by powerpoint" - if so you need to add variety. You could add music or video to make a point. Is there scope to change the way you dress - do you look like a suit or a slob?
What is their background - is what you teach relevant, can it be made relevant?
What do they want from life (degree, shed loads of money, partner,...)? Can these goals be linked to the sessions you run?
Hygiene factors: things that de-motivate if not present or done well. Is your class at 9:00, or at 5:00 - inconvenient times? Do they get the references/handouts/materials that they need. Is the room in good repair? Some of these things may be beyond your control, but you need to develop strategies to overcome these problems.
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Don't teach - "be" a teacher. It won't always go well, but if you change your perspective, you, and they, may get to enjoy it a lot more (and get some learning done).
Good luck.
find out why they are ;acking in attendence and why there are behavioural problems
its usually to do with anger and boredom
and then get them some therapy to vent their emotions in a healthy way
training youngsters to release hostility helps them to adjust to adulthood in a responsible way
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