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Confrontation in the classroom may be one of the scary things for a teacher, especially for novice teachers. I myself have faced confrontation when one of the students was frustrated with what I taught in class. This happened at the beginning of the year I was teaching when my teaching experience was lacking. Although various teaching strategies have been prepared before beginning teaching, the problem still arises in the teaching process. By that, "counter-attack" needs to be prepared by each teacher in dealing with confrontations that students may have at any time.

Typically, confrontation may occur between students and students, or between students and teachers. The cause can come from various things. Before the advent of confrontation in the classroom often begins with signs where students feel emotionally with with certain causes, either by their friends like ridicule or sarcasm, or it may be caused by teachers such as students being frustrated with learning.

Furthermore, to anticipate confrontation in the classroom teachers need to be aware of some of the key signals that trigger confrontation in the classroom as follows:

1.  Confrontation can occur as a result of students who feel emotion due to learning difficulties that occur constantly. Emotions are usually caused by the frustration of students especially in certain subjects where students do not have sufficient competence to the lesson.

2. Confrontation in the classroom between students and teachers may be triggered by the perception of students who feel the rules that teachers apply in the class are not fair. Perhaps students feel ashamed of other friends when the teacher punishes the student so that the student tries to fight the teacher.

3. Confrontation can also arise when students try to keep their self-esteem. Perhaps a teacher is trying to ask the student to answer a question that is not possible, so that the student tries to divert the teacher's questions by doing something else.

4. If their friends or teacher gives physical or verbal intimidation the student, he will try to react to the intimidation. Intimidation and reactions from these students can lead to confrontation in the classroom.

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### Strategies To Deal with Confrontations in the Classroom
From the trigger points of confrontations in the classroom, obviously, teacher teaching skills, and conflict management skills are essential in avoiding or dealing with confrontations in the classroom. In this case, teachers need to control their emotions during a confrontation by trying to find the right response to the confrontation. For action to be taken, teachers need to be careful in acting so that students are not more emotionally at what the teacher does. Other possible causes of confrontations also need to be identified by the teacher, for example the student is experiencing problems in his or her family life.

However, the main strategy in dealing with  confrontations the classroom in  is to *stay calm*. By staying calm the students' emotions will gradually become more stable. Another way is to enumerate your social skills in facing confrontation. Perhaps students will be at the peak of their tension when they are emotions, here the teacher is required to be able to do social upheaval in taming students' emotions. The last two ways are to separate students into classes or other places for the rest of the lesson, and ask for help from the school to discipline the student.

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### Strategies to Avoid Confrontations in the Classroom
Strategies to avoid confrontations in the classroom is  more important for the teacher to realize than the strategies to deal with confrontations. avoiding means preventing the trigger of confrontation. Thus, the possibility of a smaller confrontation could be handled by implementing a prevention strategy. For that, teachers need to apply the following strategies:

##### Classroom contracts
The teacher implements a classroom contract as a joint endeavor in various actions to be taken in the future for one semester. The classroom contract aims to make students feel fair about the action. This contract can be applied in various ways such as awards, punishments, and assessments of student attitudes and performance for one semester. If there are students who do positive things then the teacher can give awards, or if there are students who violate the class contract then the teacher can take action in accordance with the agreed contract between teachers and students.

##### Involving parents roles in monitoring students
To get information about students, teachers need to involve parents. With the involvement of parents, teachers can get various information about a particular student. And it will be easy for teachers to anticipate emotionally troubled students as an effort to keep the confrontation going on in the classroom. Teachers can also give special treatment to students who experience uncontrollable emotions.

##### Rehabilitation unit for misbehaving students
Despite the controversy, I think a unit in school for misbehaving  students is needed. Any student who misbehaves at school is placed in the unit and rehabilitated with positive activities and is taught to adjust and control emotions under certain circumstances. students who are placed in this unit need not be long, enough for an hour, a day or a week of 
school hours.

### Conclusion
Confrontation is a difficult thing to avoid in class. Various factors that cause confrontation arise from time to time. Teachers must be prepared for possible confrontations while teaching in the classroom. Various conflict resolution strategies need to be mastered by teachers in an effort to minimize negative impacts. In addition, the attitude of professionalism is also very important so that teachers are not emotional in dealing with confrontation in the classroom. The strategies I have mentioned are appropriate to apply in the classroom, and if the readers have other ideas, I am waiting for comments on this article.

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[Teacher Corner 4: Encouraging Students To Do Sport!](https://steemit.com/steemiteducation/@affiedalfayed/teacher-corner-4-encouraging-students-to-do-sport)
[Teacher Corner 3: Cooperative Learning, How Does It Work?](https://steemit.com/steemiteducation/@affiedalfayed/teacher-corner-3-cooperative-learning-how-does-it-work)
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