Yesterday, I was in my usual Year One Maths class. It's the average ability pupils in that said class. But all fun nonetheless despite sometimes creating headaches to me. Ha!
While I was blabbering about Place Value and Digit Value (Yes, it's in the Year One syllabus this year)...suddenly, a pupil, who has always been among the brightest in class but at the same time, a short tempered kid with less patience, shouted, "Teacher, dia tidak pandai tu buat tu. Tapi saya pandai."
Feeling the air of arrogance in his tone, I quickly told him not to say such negative mark to his friends. He quieted. But judging from the look of his face, he doesn't seem to realize that he is being one.
I continued yada, yada...
Then, came again the same voice of this same boy...
"Saya pintar bah teacher. Saya boleh buat tu exercise," he exclaimed while his chubby fingers holding the pencil, scribbling on answer for the exercise I gave to the class.
This (self-claimed smart) situation has been happening a few times and I just don't know what else to say to remind the boy that it is not quite nice to vocally self-praised himself while looking down on other people.
He is indeed a smart boy. But something in his tone when talking about him being smart and all shouts the need to have people think of him as the worthy one of all others. Well, the fact that kids are synonym to wanting attention is something that I perfectly aware of . Unfortunately, I am baffled with this particular boy. Does arrogant and proud come naturally in an individual and occur as young age as that? Or is it influenced by the people and the environment that surrounds the individual? And speaking of the latter, what kind of surroundings influenced this arrogant behavior? Having family that are too proud of themselves above others or probably family that actually just want the child to have self-confidence but somehow the good intention wasn't channeled properly?
How do you actually deal with arrogant young children?
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