T he r eader ’

 
 
When students misbehave their goal is usually to gain attention, gain power, exact 
revenge, or avoid failure. Students need to feel that they belong in the classroom, which means 
they must perceive themselves to be important, worthwhile, and valued. Their behavior is 
reflective of that desire. Teachers can defuse incipient misbehavior by using appropriate 
intervention techniques and encouragement to help students attain a sense of belonging. 
Teachers in general reflect three styles of classroom management: permissive, autocratic, 
and democratic. Of the three, the democratic style best promotes good discipline. The hands-off 
style fails to help students make responsible decisions about their learning. The hands-on style 
attempts to force behavior change, with the result that students rebel and come to dislike their 
teachers and their classes. The cooperative hands-joined style works to gain student trust and 
allow students to participate in making choices about their education, which invites them to be 
more cooperative and more motivated to achieve. 
[
Charles, C. M.
Building Classroom Discipline
. Sixth edition. New York: Longman, 1999, p. 
125.]
8. “. . . heredity, environment, innate needs, happy and unhappy experiences, and conditioned 
responses all affect how students behave” is an example of 
A. the main idea of paragraph one. 
B. support for the main idea of paragraph one. 
C. a detailed description of paragraph one. 
9. The focus of paragraph three is that 
A. the democratic style is the best style for classroom management. 
B. there are three classroom management styles. 
C. the autocratic styles attempts to force behavior change. 
10. According to the author, one of the most important strategies a teacher can utilize is to 
A. use the hands-on style. 
B. punish students for incipient behavior. 
C. instill in the student a sense of belonging.