## 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?