Behavior Management

If you have a student who is being disrespectful to the leaders and it has been addressed (pulling the student aside in the moment, giving the student a role in the group, etc) but has continued, please reach out to someone on the Safety Team (the team wearing safety yellow shirts) and ask them to get RUSH Leadership. We will talk with the student to try to resolve that situation or call the student's parent, depending on the situation. Do NOT let a disrespectful student take you out of your group for the night or allow them to hijak your small group lesson or discussion time. 

It is not unusual for small groups to have a student(s) who wants to monopolize the discussion time. One suggestion to curb this is to pull the student aside privately and let them know that you appreciate their desire to participate, but that their zealous approach to participating is making it hard for others to do so. Invite the student to come along side you in encouraging others to participate, by asking the over-participater to dial it back. Sometimes it is helpful for the leader and the over-participater to have a private signal that they agree on so that the leader can signal to the over-participater when they need to stop talking and let others share.