What would you do?

 

How to recognise alarming behaviour? Unfortunately, there are no checklists or flow charts to enable you to predict with certainty whether a person will begin displaying alarming or high-risk behaviour.

 

However, you can use your professional judgement to assess your own student or a student a colleague has a gut feeling about. Working in higher education, you will probably have developed good people skills. So first rely on your own instincts, and act accordingly.

Three stories

Three stories run like a thread through this course – recognisable situations which you might also have encountered. First watch the following three short videos.

The expert

In the videos above you see two students displaying both verbally and physically aggressive behaviour. What is the best way for you as a teacher to manage this situation? Where do you draw the line?