Home | How It Works | Stats Login | Register         Case: Middle School Behavior Problem Not Solved This semester I am interning in a middle school with ESE inclusion students. A majority of the ESE students are boys with SLD, ADHD, or selective mute-ism. These students really like to be involved in sports. However, lately the students have become openly defiant with me. I have tried giving them rewards for good behavior and giving them more encouragement on assignments, none of which seem to be helping the situation. These students do not yet see me as an educator. I am very lost on how to help these types of students. I do not want to issue out lunch detentions if it will make the situation worse. What can I do to help these boys and stop the misbehavior? Solution: (Rates are posted for this solution!) I also work with middle school aged students now and found this to be an issue as well. What I did was found the ringleader of their little disruptive group. The one everyone kind of followed. I started to change the way he thought about himself and using him as examples for positive things and asked him for help at times. Once I got him on my side because he thought I needed him and trusted him he thought higher of himself and changed his behavior and the rest of the group soon followed. There is still maybe 1 or 2 that I have issues with but for the main part I won over the entire by engaging them in "cool" activities and things they could relate too.