Since the beginning of the year one of the boys in my class prefers to complete tasks at his own rate and when he is told that a task needs to be completed immediately or at a rate that is faster or slower than his rate he has a meltdown/temper tantrum that halts the rest of the class's learning because he is so vocal during his meltdowns.
Lately when this happens I ask him to move himself to the hallway to calm down and return when he is ready to learn or I ask him to go into the hall and talk to me about why he is upset in an attempt to give him some strategies to not get as upset when the same or similar situations happen in the future. I have also realized that I cannot make him, or any other student, learn if they do not want to. I can only keep them from stopping other students from being able to learn.
Since I began starting to talk to this student about changing his behavior so that his actions only impact him, he has been doing better. He's not perfect, but he is better. He has not had as many meltdowns the past few weeks as he did at the beginning of the year and the outbursts he does have are more easily corrected most of the time. The fact that he is showing growth in his maturity tells me that he is responding positively to the time he spends with me one-on-one related to non-academic contexts, which means that I'm doing something right for this student.
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