According to new research, a classroom with just one disruptive child can lower children’s future earnings by more than 3%.
Experts have found that badly behaved children can take up too much of a teacher’s time and attention, leaving the rest of the class to suffer. This, they found, is particularly the case during primary school.
Disruptions in the classroom reportedly lead to a loss of up to an hour of learning a day.
“For too many pupils, having a calm and orderly environment for learning is a lottery,” concluded the report.
A previous study looked into a child’s self-regulation - i.e. their ability to monitor and control their own behavior, emotions, or thoughts. They found that regardless of a child’s self-regulation skill, the class average score also predicts how much an individual child will learn.
Researchers concluded that kids who have trouble inhibiting impulses don’t just get distracted from their work; when they get distracted from their work they likely engage in behaviours that distract other kids, too.
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