Buddy Teachers
Save the Day

Many teachers use the "buddy room" concept to deal with disruptive students. Two teachers agree to be buddy room partners. (This works best if the buddying teachers are in adjacent rooms.) If a student is being disruptive, his or her teacher takes the student to the buddy room, where a special seat is assigned for such circumstances. Some teachers leave the disruptive student there until he or she feels ready to return to class; at that point, the student raises a hand and the buddy teacher takes the student back to class at the first opportunity. Other teachers leave a stack of "think sheets" in the desk in the buddy room; the offending student remains until he or she completes a think sheet -- which has areas for students to describe what they did wrong, the effects of that behavior, and what they will do to correct the behavior.

09/14/2010