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<blockquote data-quote="alongfortheride" data-source="post: 101427" data-attributes="member: 3817"><p>I work in a behavioral classroom as a para. There are 3 adults to 6 children, grades 3-5. On any given day we will have at least one child refuse all work. Everyday it is the same routine. The child is lessoned with some success, then when it comes time to put pencil to paper, the refusals start. We have the luxury of working one on one, attempting to motivate, offering incentives, offer alternative assignments (ie, lower level-stress free), withholding priveges. We have quite the bag of tricks and sometimes we go through them all without success. At the end of the subject period, the papers are removed (if not previously shredded) and put into the earned time pile. We move onto the next lesson and repeat. Recess is withheld if the assignments are still being refused. Earned time is withheld. At the end of the day the fifth grade students may have 8 pages, journal entries, independent work assignments piled up. We will try to present the same material for 2 days. If it is still refused then the work is sent home with a hope and a prayer. We know the stresses involved for the parent. Sometimes its successful, sometimes not. We then move on to the next lesson.</p><p></p><p>One of our students has not picked up a pencil since Halloween. He is passive in his refusal and is willing to sit quietly and do absolutely nothing day after day after day. The acting out refusal just seem more natural to me. Then again I know that I am skewed by my own issues at home.</p><p></p><p>This is one of the most frustrating aspects of my job. These kids are all quiet capable of learning and the work. We also see the cyclical pattern and try to ride some of it out, hoping they can catch up in better times. One student last year refused for 4 months and then worked like the wind starting about March and was caught up and beyond by the end of the year.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="alongfortheride, post: 101427, member: 3817"] I work in a behavioral classroom as a para. There are 3 adults to 6 children, grades 3-5. On any given day we will have at least one child refuse all work. Everyday it is the same routine. The child is lessoned with some success, then when it comes time to put pencil to paper, the refusals start. We have the luxury of working one on one, attempting to motivate, offering incentives, offer alternative assignments (ie, lower level-stress free), withholding priveges. We have quite the bag of tricks and sometimes we go through them all without success. At the end of the subject period, the papers are removed (if not previously shredded) and put into the earned time pile. We move onto the next lesson and repeat. Recess is withheld if the assignments are still being refused. Earned time is withheld. At the end of the day the fifth grade students may have 8 pages, journal entries, independent work assignments piled up. We will try to present the same material for 2 days. If it is still refused then the work is sent home with a hope and a prayer. We know the stresses involved for the parent. Sometimes its successful, sometimes not. We then move on to the next lesson. One of our students has not picked up a pencil since Halloween. He is passive in his refusal and is willing to sit quietly and do absolutely nothing day after day after day. The acting out refusal just seem more natural to me. Then again I know that I am skewed by my own issues at home. This is one of the most frustrating aspects of my job. These kids are all quiet capable of learning and the work. We also see the cyclical pattern and try to ride some of it out, hoping they can catch up in better times. One student last year refused for 4 months and then worked like the wind starting about March and was caught up and beyond by the end of the year. [/QUOTE]
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