Oregon Officials Wonder Why Children Act out: Maybe It’s Because…
They’ve got behavioral problems in Oregon. Kids throwing tantrums, despondence, and there’s plenty of physical aggression to go around. Officials don’t know why. Their data isn’t helping much–and they can’t figure it out–exactly. They know many of the children live in poverty. They might be traumatized due to violence in their lives, and this could be a reason why students are acting out.
Also there is this: Oregon adopted Common Core Standards in 2010, requiring kindergarten students to talk about vertices and angles, for example, not just the basics about shapes. Could Common Core be getting under their skin?
It sounds like Oregon teachers have some good ideas on how to resolve the problem. Talking about feelings and situations with children, problem solving isn’t bad either. Color coded materials representing feeling levels remind me a bit of Homeland Oregon Officials Wonder Why Children Act out: Maybe It’s Because…:
