Home | How It Works | Stats Login | Register         Case: Purposefully Being Disobedient In a class I was an intern for, there was a young boy who would purposefully not follow directions given. For example, when told to create a poem with a drawing, the student wrote a poem and turned it in with no drawing. The teacher asked the boy to create a drawing, and about one minute later, the boy came back with pencil scribbles all over the paper. Mind you, this student has plenty of his artwork on the wall (along with his other classmates) and seemed to be in a hurry throughout this behavior. The teacher let him know the drawing must be done with the supplied crayons and must represent his poem. Finally, he turned in a beautiful assignment. What do you think could be causing this behavior and why? Solution: (Rates are posted for this solution!) Always reward the positive behavior and try not to give negative behaviors attention. In this case, if you know the student will do this each time an assignment is given, before letting that child start the assignment check in with that child and make sure they understand the directions. Verbalize what he will do and get ideas, the student will have no room to say he did not understand.