students misbehavior

 Student misbehaviors represent a thorny issue affecting classrooms around the world to a point that each classroom has at least one or two students with misbehaviors.  Spencer Kagan, (2004), describes misbehavior as “disruptions that can be categorized into four types—aggression, breaking rules, confrontations, and disengagement”. The kinds of misbehaviors that a student might exhibit include: daydreaming, throwing temper tantrums, being disruptive to other students, being disrespectful, insulting, making threats, committing violent acts, harassing classmates, avoiding  work  etc. Such behaviors affect the learning process, retard its effectiveness and change the flow of the lesson. To lessen such effects, it is of primary importance to understand the intentions of the student’s behavior so it becomes easier for the teacher to put an end and find the appropriate solutions to the misbehaviors. In these areas, teachers should not only take the role of an educator but also the role of a researcher and an observant to find out what his students' real intentions are; is the student  misbehaving to grab the teacher’s attention? Is it to prove his power to his classmates? Or maybe because he doesn’t like his teacher’s method of teaching? However, Finding out the intentions of the misbehaving students cannot be done without really knowing them. Therefore, teachers ought to have enough background knowledge about the misbehaving student, which can be done  through conducting certain interviews with the student’s parents, his/her previous teachers, and observing his/her behavior and conduct with so much attention.