With a student like Brandon, who seems to be an angry student, I would be careful with them. In careful I mean that I would try to talk to them about their actions on a day when they don't seem so upset. I speak for myself when I say this, but when I'm angry I tend to not appreciate it when people argue with me or put me down, in fact when I'm angry I would rather me left alone. I tend to start talking about the problem I had later on when I've cooled down. I believe Brandon would feel the same way.
Another helpful approach is if Brandon doesn't wanna talk I could some how get help through the parents and I don't mean verbally asking them what's going on in Brandon's life. You can usually tell when something is going on in the parents life that may affect the child, just by the way the parent may act during the parent teacher interview. By picking up reactions from the parents I could get a slight hint of the severity of damage that is going on in Brandon's life to understand his behaviour in class.
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