Home | How It Works | Stats Login | Register         Case: Play the class clown You're teaching a freshman health class and you're a quarter way through your first semester. You have just recently mastered all your students names, but you are still getting to know who they are and their personalities. Your unit has shifted from healthy relationships to abusive relationships. You've got one student who in particular usually is pretty well- behaved but during this unit starts to act out and play the class clown. One day, while you were covering sexual abuse he makes a comment that makes you believe he could have been abused. What do you do? How would you respond to the students comment? Would you take them aside after class and talk to him even if your relationship with the student is still not matured? What are your responsibilities / actions as a teacher in this situation? Solution: (Rates are posted for this solution!) This is a serious problem. The first thing I would do is let the school counselor know that way you are covering yourself from any legal actions that may happen. Second, if you feel you have a pretty decent relationship with the student, I would talk to them after class. Ask them if there is something going on because they have never acted this way before. I would definitely try to build a relationship with this student, so that they can confide in you in the future.