Home | How It Works | Stats Login | Register         Case: Different students I have many students who always disgree and laugh at other students no matter what is said. How do i get them to respect other students opinions? Solution: (Rates are posted for this solution!) I had this issue a few times as a former substitute teacher, and something that I did that seemed to help a lot was "Pausing for the I AM Board". As soon as I caught wind that students were bullying/laughing at other students, I paused whatever we were doing and walked to the whiteboard, and wrote "I AM". Each student gave me a positive word they believed about themselves "fearless, strong, kind, beautiful, etc.) and I wrote it up on the board. After every student gave me a word, we read them aloud in unison, and I said "Do you all believe these things to be true about yourselves and your neighbors?" and they all responded "yes". I then said, "Okay, then we need to treat one another with that belief. We need to respect one another in order to work as a team". My students loved this activity, and it honestly solved a lot more issues than I even thought it would. Sometimes it just takes a brief moment of students self-reflecting and being aware of others to turn their attitudes around.