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· **be mature and ignore the other student and go about their business** · **be immature and respond, even becoming confrontational**
 * Chapter 10 made some very great points about when to "take notice" of students behavior and when to let it go. The beginning of the chapter sets up the hypothetical situation of the students walking through the hall and one shouting out a name to another. The student receiving the name can either deal with it one of two ways:**
 * The author suggests that we take a lesson from the mature student and not “automatically react every time a student step a little out of line.” When we are correcting or redirecting behavior it is always best to speak the redirection and then continue on in order to have the least disruption to the rest of the class as possible. This keeps the lesson running and also dissuades those students that are looking for attention from repeated interruptions (“great teachers know how to give their students the attention they need, without misbehavior spiraling out of control”)**


 * The other point the author makes is that if the teacher does not know when intervention is or is not needed they may become nitpickers. If a teacher is trying to control every second in a classroom that can create a negative atmosphere where the student might think “O.K. what is Ms. X going to complain about today?” This will always lead to interferences in productive learning and quality relationships between teacher and student.**