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Please respond to the following hypothetical situation: Disorder exists in your classroom. Students are constantly out of their seats, rude to each other, ignore your directions, walk in and out of the classroom without permission, and shout across the room to each other. The students' behavior seems to be acceptable to your cooperating teacher. What must you do?

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Some people filter noise and environmental stimuli differently than other people. The real challenge is that if the people are used to the situation that is staged there may be little that can be done. If after talking with the cooperating ...

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