Finally! I’ve made some progress on my inquiry project this week! Success! I’m not as happy as I could be with the amount of progress I’ve made, but I have made some progress! I completed a short online course on de-escalation techniques for teaching online from The Society for the Prevention of Teen Suicide this week. There’s no estimated time to complete posted, and I can’t remember how long it took me personally to complete. Looking back, I would estimate ten to twenty minutes?
After taking this short course, I feel more reassured that I would be able to de-escalate situations if I was teaching online due to the pandemic.
Here are some helpful de-escalation techniques:
- Seeing the student’s point of view
- Avoiding getting the last word in
- Offering to do something differently
- Telling a disruptive student that you want to speak with them after class
- Offering the student some choices on what they want to do
This is a resource this course suggested for more de-escalation strategies.
See you next week!