Why do some students seem to be "difficult" and get into trouble more than others?
The American educational system tends to be audio-visual. Typically, teachers talk (auditory) for long periods and they use some type of visual strategy like writing on the board. Schools using audio-visual presupposes that all students will process it in those two.
This is not the case. Some students process information differently. Unfortunately, this causes two problems:
1. These students have problems grasping and understanding what the teacher says about the subject.
2. This makes these students restless which creates discipline problems for the teacher.
How does this happen?
The student needs to understand what the teacher is saying but can't because the teacher is talking and doing things in a system the student doesn't normally process in. Therefore, the student gets confused and bored.
Confusion and boredom are feelings students don't like, therefore they distract themselves from it by moving and talking. Teachers misinterpret that behavior as being bad and punish students because they think they are bad. They say things like, "You are distracting the class." However, the students don't think they are doing that. They think they are distracting themselves from the bad feeling they get when they do not understand.
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