Urgent teacher advice needed

Okay I have been on a training course for Best Start program for the past 2 days and my kindy class has had a casual. A fantastic casual mind you who used to teach at our school for many many years and is fantastic with the little ones.

A situation occurred today where a boy in my class decided that he would rip all the pictures and posters off the walls in my classroom including my word wall which took me forever to put up. I am quite upset about it as I put so much effort into making sure my classroom looks great

He has had some behaviour problems through the year and is quite a boystrous child and he had a lunch time detention a few weeks ago.

I am wondering how I should deal with him now.

I am also aware that he is acting out a lot lately due to the family dog in England dying (mind you the boy is only 6 and he has been living in Australia since he was 3. It was more the dads dog).

Any advice out there? I dont want to be too harsh but I am tired off this child thinking that he can just get away with things all the time.

hey there ALi
i used to teach in a previous life from 3 year olds to grade 6.
If an incident like this happened to me,I would be meeting with his parents ASAP to have a meeting to discuss the consequences that need to be put in place due to his actions. The consequences need to be to limit his ability to have free choice in what he does at kinder. The reason being that he can obviously cannot cope with the freedom that the other kids have, and it has to be earnt again and proved before it is given back. That may include his play choices, his ability to join in with group acitivties, him playing under close supervisor.
These consequences will create extra work unfortuately for you, but he needs to taught that his actions and choices have consequences- it cant be all one sided.

By involving the parents, then hopefully they will support and back your plan and maybe even get the idea to follow though at home as well

Also if you are worried about his behaviour, then maybe its worth bringing a field officer in to observe him. See what they say!

Good luck
Odette

Thanks Odette.

I might try and catch mum tomorrow and have chat abo it as it needs to be followed up on quickly. great suggestions. Thankyou so much. :)

Hi Alibaby - I am not a teacher but was reading an awesome parenting book the other day by Robin Grille and I guess in some things the two have similarities. It was talking about how consequences need to be a logical consequence of the inappropriate action. For example, if he has ripped the wall decorations down then he needs to spend his lunchtime helping you put it back up etc. It helps them to relate real life reactions to their actions. Secondly to avoid shaming (even inadvertantly) as this makes them act out even more and can set up a bit of a powerstruggle in an attempt to get their pride back IYKWIM. But ultimately you do need to talk to the parents to help him get back on the right track if he is having problems. Not sure if this helped but good luck with it.