Student’s Response and Behavior in the Classroom Environment

Abstract

Problematic behavior of students in the classroom causes destruction to the learning environment, teacher’s concentration and adversely affects social and educational level of the student. Present paper put forth the various reasons responsible for behavioral problems in school classrooms. Based on an in depth study of secondary schools at Pune, India, it analyses the various approaches that are adopted by teachers and the respective effect on student’s behavior and performance in classroom to overcome this problem . This is aimed to suggest new approaches which go beyond explicitly academic interventions to take on the learning challenges posed by problematic student behavior and the ways schools deal with it. It endeavors to put forth measures considering that the social and behavioral environment of a classroom can reflect the overall academic environment of the school broadly, and stress on the contributions of strategies or programs to improving student behavior by and large.