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Three things students struggle with is the sense of belonging. believing in themselves and attention. Some students are economically impacted in their home life which may hinder them from being shown the proper love and care from their guardians at home. Including students in setting up games and helping clean up. Children want to feel in control so giving them responsibilities like setting up cones, counting out bean bags or even choosing their own teams helps their competence. I notice a lot of students lack confidence when it comes to simple tasks or games in PE. I try to always proving positive and corrective feedback with a fist bump or hand five. Some students are easily discouraged which makes it difficult for them to enjoy a game or actively participate. Certain students may lack discipline at home so when they are shown attention whether its negative or positive, they tend to lash out. That's why building relationships with students. learning them personally and noticing small attributes, giving compliments provides them a sense of belonging.

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Some things our students carry with them are lack of attention and love, neglect, and childhood trauma. A lot of students raise themselves due to parents needing to work long hours, or they help raise their younger siblings and take on the role of a co-parent. Some students are not getting their basic needs met due to family financial problems and hardships. Others have experiences painful childhood trauma that may cause a mental shutdown and acting out. These students need love and attention and a sense of belonging and competence. These are things that we, as teachers, can give them. They are carrying things like hurt, pain, neglect, and childhood trauma in their invisible backpack. It's invisible because it's not easily seen or they will hide it so it isn't seen.

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Children can be carrying with them the negative role models that they have in their immediate families.
For example, they may have parents that use foul language or don't have repect for women. Then they
copy these models, until they learn that they are not beneficial. Being that these unbenefical behaviors
are often what they are exposed to for their most influential years of childhood, they can often take a
longer to redirect.

Children can be carrying harsh words from their caretakers or even older siblings. Sometimes parents
unknowingly distroy their childrens' self-esteem by making fun and insulting them. Or, in worse
situations, the child can be experiencing verbal abuse and gaslighting in the home.

Children can be carrying with them, the stress of their caretakers. In situations were their caretakers are
struggling to support them. The children may experience not having food at home, or hearing the adults
around them talk about their financial or personal problems. This can make the child feel unsafe, and
cause the adults around them to have less patience.

We can help these children by building their confidence & self-esteem, and giving them emotional
support. While, also showing them new beneficial ways to get their needs met.

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1. They need to be heard. Some of my students do not get enough attention at home because their parents are always working. They are thirsty for someone to listen to what they have to say. They want attention.
2. The bilingual students are still learning how to speak English, so they do not understand. (Competence) This can be very hard especially when they realize how behind they are compared to their peers.
3. All students have a desire to belong. every child is different and they carry different baggage. At the end of the day all they want to to be liked by others and welcomed in school.

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The 3 things that students carry with them is first, attention seeking. Many students thrive off attention and likes being the center of attention. students may misbehave to get the teacher and other students attention since the student may not receive little to no attention at home. The best way to handle that situation is to ignore the student bad behavior since the student already knows that them behaving doesn't get everyone's attention but misbehaving does. The best way to correct student behavior is to correct the behavior privately, one on one with the student instead of addressing it in front of the whole class, when the student is behaving reward that behavior , but privately. Many students also struggle with belonging, many students feel like they don't belong and may feel out of place with their peers, making the student participate and encourage to be apart of the group is a good way to help the student. Competence is another thing students carry many students have a low self esteem and don't believe they can be successful they may think they are not good enough or may think nobody cares for them but we can do is encourage students that they are important and they are as good enough as the rest.

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Since I have been teaching a few things I have seen my students struggle with are wanting attention, hunger, and not having a strong family unit. For many students school is their safe place and where they may get their only steady meals, breakfast and lunch.

Students act our for attention because any attention is good attention. Ignoring their bad behavior and praising good behavior can help maintain the dignity of the student and show them acting out is not going to get them the attention they want.

Some students come from diverse living situations and might not have both or any parents in their life. They may go back and forth between multiple houses if parents are divorced. There are also students living in multi-generational living situations and have several families living under one roof. It's important to make sure they feel a sense of belonging at school if they don't have a stable home life and provide them stability they may not have elsewhere.

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Students are carrying with them the need for attention and belonging. Behavior is a form of communication, and a lot of times students are acting out in order to get our attention because that is the only way they know how to do it. Attention could in the form of not enough at home, or the opposite, too much attention at home. Students also want to know & feel that they belong. Creating a classroom community helps this!

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Our students can be struggling with a lack of attention from home. So they need more praise and positive feedback on all they do well. As well as ignoring certain bad behaviors to encourage them to seek positive attention.

Some students also feel a need to have control over their education and what they want to learn we can help them by giving students more chances to make choices of their own.

Belonging is another need that some students may have. They have a need to feel connected to their peers and mentors in life. Group activities can really help with this.

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The three things that I see students carry in their backpacks are:

Low self esteem-
These students are a result where no love and lack of attention is given. Parents and other family members have put other priorities above in order to support a family.  The lack of a father figure is another factor that contribute to low self esteem. They come to school trying to fulfill that void.  We need to be vigilant and help this students accomplish their goals and dreams. We need to let them know that they are love and we are here to support them as much as we can.

Guilt-
some students they feel responsible for their family financial  situation. They experience the pressure of their peers and their environment. This create an idea of dropping out of school in order to help the family. I feel we need to help them understand that the choice done by their parents should not allow them think and do irrational things that might affect their future. To use their situation to starve to do better and in that way help their parents financially and in every way they can.

Peer Pressure- This is another factor that affect our students.  The sense to belong in a society, be part of a group of people that will fill the void of loneliness. Its an area that our students are been lured too. Most of these groups are creating a negative impact in our students.  We need to teach them how to use better judgment when choosing whom to hang around.  To seek positive friendships that will help them succeed in life. Friendships that will be there for life and not just temporarily.

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1. Students could get very little attention at home and seek any attention they can get, even negative, from school
2. Students could never face discipline or be corrected at home, and are new to this idea in school
3. Students could be upset about something happening in their personal life and are lashing out at school because that's something within their control, even if it is a negative action

We can help with all of these by correcting students individually, being understanding, and creating a kind class environment that values respect for others (including the troublemaker but also including victims)

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Three things that students struggle with that causes misbehavior is attention, power of control, and competence. Attention, rather if they´re receiving too much attention or not enough attention it causes misbehavior. To prevent this struggle we need to let the student feel loved, we need to compliment them and shower them with attention. if its too much attention we need to offer a positive challenge.
Power of control is when students feel as if they have no control over or influence in their lives which causes them to act out. giving students a sense control by adding jobs or keeping them accountable for their actions can prevent the misbehavior.
competence students feel like they are not smart enough to succeed which causes them to not care or act out. we can help with this struggle by setting up small groups, offering or giving extra help,also showing them more love.

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One of the three things our students struggle with is competence. They need to believe in themselves in order to succeed. Theres times that they don't believe in themselves and that causes them to act out or pretend not to care. Another one is belonging, there's kids that are in sports, extra activities or etc... and then there's some that do poorly in school and are not part of a group. So they feel disconnected and wanting to be part of a group. The third one is lack of attention, in my opinion this is the most common one. A way we can help them out with these struggles is always engaging with them having a positive mindset and even rewarding them. Theses are all factors that can help them with these struggles and can lead them to success,

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Three things our students struggle with and how we can help them.  By Deborah Craig

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Three things our students struggle with and how we can help them.  By Deborah Craig

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Three things I observed are Homelessness, an absent parent/divorce and abusive environment.
I believe the best thing we can do is to try very hard to establish a relationship with the student and find out what they like to do or what their talents are and plan accordingly. This will provide a safety net for the child and make them feel loved and cared for.

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A students home situation can be a cause of some misbehavior:
1. They may not have direction/discipline at home. So when they come to school and have to follow rules they don't see them as necessary. The lack of adult attention  at home may lead them to act out to seek love/attention.
2. A child wants to have choices/control over somethings in their life. If their home life it too strict, they might act out when they can't have choices. They might throw a tantrum over what an adult would consider a minor thing, but if they were given a choice the child feels in  control.
3. If a child is not allowed to do anything for himself at home, when they come to school and "fail" at something they might feel incompetent/"stupid" and have a tantrum. If a teacher won't do a task for them that a parent usually does, the child could again have a tantrum, because they do not know how to deal with the situation.

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ATTENTION. Some students do not get enough attention at home for different reasons e.g. too many siblings, parents working too much to support the family, or they only have one parent. These students crave attention at school, so I think it is okay to give them the attention that they seek. Even with the littlest things, like looking at them in the eyes, smiling at them, always calling them by their names, when they want to talk you always remember to give them your full and undivided attention, ask them personal questions to get to know them a bit better "what is favorite color?" Those actions can help our student and us have a better day.
BELONGING. Some students have the feeling that they don't belong and that is why they have behavioral problems at school but we can help them feel included by rewarding their participation in class, by listening to their ideas and include them in the class, asking about their interests and have a rotation of different works that they can help throughout the day.
POWER OF CONTROL. We all know the feeling of being in control, it makes us feel safe at times, and students want that feeling as well. We can give a little power of control to students by help us modify the rules in the classroom, by sharing ideas of classroom jobs they can have, by letting them express in front the class and by giving them choices rather than orders.

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The need to belong is one thing we see some our students struggling with. Some do this by  being a part of extra curricular activities outside of school, and those that don't fit in are the ones who tend to act out and not succeed in school.

Power of control:  We all need to feel in control at times. Likewise, our students feel the same so we can give them the opportunity to use their voice to help out by giving them choices or helping come up with the classroom rules.

Attention: As educators we see students who may struggle with attention. Although we want to shower them with attention we need to know when to give it in certain situations.

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What are some things our students are carrying with them? What could be in their invisible backpack?

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What are some things our students are carrying with them? What could be in their invisible backpack?

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Our students struggle with attention. Shower with attention for doing anything well.
Power of control-giving students a sense of control .
Competence-offer as much help as possible.