How do you manage challenging behaviour of students ?

Listen to them and understand the purpose.

Patience

The first step to deal effectively with inappropriate behavior is to show patience. This often means you'll need to take a cooling period before you say or do something you just might regret. This may involve having the child/student sitting in a time out or alone until you're ready to deal effectively with the inappropriate behavior.

Be Democratic

Children need choice. When you're ready to give a consequence, allow for some choice. The choice could have to do with the actual consequence, the time when the consequence will occur or input as to what follow up should and will occur. When you allow for choice, the outcomes are usually favorable - the child becomes more responsible.

 

Understand The Purpose:

Why is the child/student misbehaving? There is always a purpose. Do you know what the purpose is? Getting attention? Power? Revenge? Feelings of failure? It's important to understand the purpose to readily support it. For instance, knowing a child is frustrated and feeling like a failure will require a change of programming to ensure that he/she is set up to experience success. Those seeking attention need to receive attention - catch them doing something good! Recognize it!  

Avoid Power Struggles

In a power sruggle nobody wins. Even if you do feel like you've won, you haven't because the chance of reoccurrence is great. Avoiding power struggles really comes down to exerting patience. When you show patience, you're modeling good behavior, you ALWAYS want to model good behavior even when you are dealing with inappropriate student behaviors. Do you do this? A child's behavior is most often influence by your behavior, remember this. If you are hostel or mad when dealing - they too will be.

 

Do the Opposite of What They Expect

When a child/student misbehaves, they often anticipate your response. Do the unexpected. For instance, when you see children playing with matches or playing in an area that is outside of the boundaries, they expect you to say "Stop", or "Get back inside the boundaries now!" However, try saying something like "You kids look too smart to be playing there" (or playing with matches). You'll quite surprise them. This is a little trick that works well most of the time. Say something postive first.  

Find Something Positive

For students or children who regularly misbehave, it can be very difficult to find something positive to say. Work at this, the more they receive attention for the positive things, the less apt they are to look for attention in a negative way. Go out of your way to find something positive to say to your chronic misbehaving students. Remember, these children often lack belief in their own ability. You need to help them see that they are capable.

 

Sense of Belonging

When students or children don't feel that they belong, the result is usually the display of unacceptable behavior. Make sure the student has a strong sense of belonging. Praise the child's efforts to get along or work with others. Praise attempts to follow rules and adhere to routines.

 

Up, Down Then Up Again

My favorite tip of all. When you're about to reprimand or punish a child. Bring them up first "Lately you've done so well, I've been so impressed with your behavior'. "Why today did you need to be involved with a 'hands on'". (Deal with the issue). Then end on "I know it won't happen again because you've been so good up until this moment. I have great faith in you." You may use different approaches but always remember: Bring them up, take them down, bring them up!  

In Summary:

Strive to create a positive tone. Research shows that the most important factor in student behavior and performance is the teacher/student relationship.

Students want teachers that:

• Respect them
• Care about them
• Listen to them
• Don't yell or shout
• Have a sense of humo
• Let students give their opinions and their side/opinio.

 

You must hear their opinion and then interact with them

I agree entirely with the previous answers which I think say just about everything on this subject. The only thing I would add is that I deal with youngsters with Learning disabilties and/or challenging behaviours, often their behaviours are governed by their "condition" or Syndrome, ADHD especially. In these cases they are actively "Attention Seeking" and I find that removing them, temporarily, from their "audience" is an effective ploy.

by talking to them and understand what they want 

All children's are not having challenging behaviour, so first go closure to them and try to know the reason behind that behaviour, try to create fun learning environment generally children like to play games, so arrange few games which they like, you to play with them and arrange to have some Quiz competition etc. then only you can understand them better and sort out the problems in a better way. To make it possible the management support is more important...  if the problem is more serious then discuses with their parents and take a necessary action, other wise it effect on other children's also in many cases childrens get punished but i is not a help ful way to solve this problems.

Calm.Awareness

Depends on which areas you focus on when you talk of çhallenging'.Some may challenge discipline wise.With these l will ensure l give them little attention because any amount of attention fuels the fire.lf its competence based then l up my material for those challenging and l know that caters for them well.