1. What Might This Teacher Do?

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1. What might this teacher do?

1. The tenth grade teacher of a classroom with two students who fight during a class session might step in between them and call upon the two students to stop fighting immediately the violence starts. It is important that the teacher arrests the situation before it goes out of control (Baker, 2018). This can be achieved by merely standing up and asking the students to stop immediately. Children will often respond to the teacher’s commanding tone and clear instructions. "When students break rules, instigate fights, or cruelly tease their classmates, teachers most common reaction is to provide discipline immediately following the student's misbehavior" (O’Donnell, Reeve, & Smith, 2012, p. 139) In case the students