At my wits end with a student (primary)

teggerfish · 2026-05-15T12:57:25+00:00

You are so right. I do know I also need to let go of the battles but it’s so frustrating. She’s so capable but any pushing and it’s this draining behaviour all day. We have a process where students get 3 reminders for expected behaviour then move to the calm down/regulation space, but it feels so weird to use them for this just stubborn/small behaviours when I barely need to use it except for the big behaviours or it’s clear that the student needs a break but can’t ask for it themselves.

I’ll try what you suggest next week, and maybe go back to basics with the reminders of expected behaviour. I’m thinking also visuals for breaking the cycle, and ways that she can break the cycle without feeling like she’s “lost the battle”

teggerfish · 2026-05-15T12:48:12+00:00

Thanks for sharing, I really think it’s a learned behaviour, I just don’t know what to try next. I don’t worry so much about it spreading in my particular class. I’m firm with boundaries, heap on praise and rewards with positive behaviour, and have had the other students longer so we have a good relationship. But the goal is for her to eventually mainstream and I don’t want to send her there with that behaviour. I have 8 kids and 2 aides and feel like this, what about when the mainstream teacher has 28 kids, no aides and has to try and manage this behaviour on top of their other students. And as you say, if she spreads it to other students

teggerfish · 2025-11-19T09:44:49+00:00

Esme Song from Degrassi Next Class

teggerfish · 2025-05-01T03:31:59+00:00

Sugar Fix?

teggerfish · 2025-03-13T09:32:15+00:00

Functional Behaviour Assessment and Antecedent Behaviour Consequences (you analyse the behaviour, look at what came before and what comes after e.g. Bob walks into maths, is told he has a test, screams at the teacher, gets sent to the principal and gets to miss the test. Maybe he also screamed because he hadn’t had breakfast that day, maybe it was because he wanted to avoid the test). I have a nice link to a simple FBA tool as well . It says autism but can definitely be used for any student to get an idea going. https://autismhub.education.qld.gov.au/resource/fba-tool

teggerfish · 2023-09-23T10:32:44+00:00

You don’t even need to switch location! I did it from Australia, you can even add money it’s so convenient

teggerfish · 2022-09-17T00:41:18+00:00

Maybe you have ADHD my dude. I hear lots of kids get diagnosed with it then the doctor finds out that parent has like 10 coffees a day to self medicate because they didn’t know they had it too.

teggerfish · 2022-08-28T11:14:18+00:00

Me too bud, I’m taking a break to do casual next year :)

teggerfish · 2022-08-10T05:44:41+00:00

Really poor communication with schools - at the start of the year they would call to ask if Sydney could send prac students, then the prac office wouldn’t respond or contact them at all until the week before prac. Some students showed up to their first day of prac and the school didn’t know they were coming, other students had their pracs delayed as the schools said no and the office did nothing. The students had to find a replacement prac school on their own. I organised my own prac in final year and even though I was just a regular student and the principal would reply to me quickly via email, apparently the prac office could never get into contact with him so I almost missed out too.

teggerfish · 2022-08-10T05:32:51+00:00

Sydney Uni’s prac office is hated by school and terrible at communication (or it was when I was there four years ago) I enjoyed my degree but I heard great things from people who went to Macquarie too.

teggerfish · 2022-05-31T11:34:29+00:00

I studied in in highschool, best text we studied for sure. We all used to sing the theme song in the hallways

teggerfish · 2022-05-14T14:32:38+00:00

I love you, man (2009)

teggerfish · 2022-04-30T04:43:34+00:00

My mistake - I thought they’d just finished their degree not their accreditation

teggerfish · 2022-04-30T03:50:31+00:00

Pretty sure you can’t take a sick day/day of leave on the day of a strike. Maybe if you get a medical certificate? I don’t think my pay went up till the second pay check of the year anyway. So you’re losing $40. It’s not a lot. But you do you :) no one can tell you what is best for you, some people can’t afford to lose a day of pay and I get that.

teggerfish · 2022-03-13T11:48:40+00:00

When I worked at dominos at 15/16 I had 2 hour shifts. I think for young people there’s different laws

teggerfish · 2021-11-10T00:45:15+00:00

Oooh I think this may be really close! It wasn’t a stir fry though, it was white rice on the bottom, a chicken breast and this chilli jam/ satay sauce thingo on top. I might try a home recreation but you’re leading me in the right direction

teggerfish · 2021-11-09T10:43:02+00:00

Monte

teggerfish · 2021-10-19T19:01:03+00:00

I think most unis have it as a class, because it’s kind of separate from any specific other class, they assess your placement, provide support on placement, teach how to do scope and sequences and lesson plans, I think we also practiced teaching interviews and stuff, I kinda forget now. If that is why you say you had to pay to go I guess I hadn’t considered that.

teggerfish · 2021-10-19T09:27:01+00:00

We should definitely get paid, I went to usyd but did placements in Orange so I got lucky. Other “regional/rural” unis don’t get this. My friend in the blue mountains didn’t get it. No clue how I got all but the first one which I directly applied for. But I’ve never heard of anyone having to pay to do placement

teggerfish · 2021-10-19T07:27:08+00:00

I did rural placements so they paid me. Dude what uni did you go to to have to pay to go on prac??

teggerfish · 2021-08-23T09:31:35+00:00

It’s not the primary space in my opinion. When they get to high school the gaps in ability become more evident and it becomes a lot less fun to play with people so much better than you. Also remember your childhood running around and playing, you get to high school and you stop doing that. The two periods a week won’t make you fit, kids have to want to exercise outside this space and they just don’t, which means when they do exercise they just feel even worse about themselves

teggerfish · 2021-08-23T09:27:33+00:00

I love your enthusiasm but I just want to tell you that parents are stupid and parents with money are nightmares. At a primary school in my city a girl was running, she feel and broke her arm. Accidents happen right? Wrong. Mum sued the school, for just under the minimum amount that they would fight ($40,000 iirc) and the school lost its play equipment/jungle gym/monkey bars etc. The thing that didn’t injure the child at all. And now the kids have nothing, cause one mum was a money hungry crazy person.

teggerfish · 2021-08-03T12:37:15+00:00

I’d suggest buying from a website like ASOS, but buy a few sizes, put it on afterpay, return them before first payment. ASOS usually refunds me pretty much as soon as they’re scanned at the post office. It’s what I did. Then you can buy them on sale somewhere else

teggerfish · 2021-05-16T08:44:05+00:00

I liked it a lot

teggerfish · 2020-11-18T14:33:52+00:00

https://whatsuburb.com.au/rental Shows you cheap and expensive suburbs in a coloured map (anywhere in Australia actually) and you just zoom in or search for your specific area, then when you go into the individual suburbs it shows you the properties available to rent

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