Raising a student

In a way, dealing with a student in your own class is almost like dealing with your own children. A situation came up during my practicum this past week. There is one student who is defiant. Her moods go up and down, but the teacher tells me that lately she has been acting up a lot. I approached her in effort to help her with her work, but she quickly became very argumentative. Reluctant to take an feedback on her work, she then ran out of the classroom. Now I don’t often have situations in my life where someone is so argumentative with me without me ignoring them or shunning them out. But as a teacher you cant ignore. As  a teacher you must either give punishments, alternative options, have conversations, talk to parents, ect. You want the child to grow in the right direction, learn, prosper, correct their behavior, and succeed. It is part of your responsibility. As a student teacher I am still unsure how to handle these sticky situations. I told the teacher and the EA ran after her. I am trying so hard to be SEL focused with her, and build a relationship with her, and sometimes it helps, but other times it almost makes no difference. Its especially difficult to when I also have so many other students to focus on. I cant devote all my time to one person. To be honest it is difficult to have someone to be so rude to your face and just keep dealing with it in a polite and calm manner. It is almost natural to want to just ignore the person, but with this job you cant. I guess in a way this is what parenting it like. Not that I would know, but I feel like being a teacher will help me with a lot of the parenting I will do one day, and vice versa.