There should be school or district policies in place for how to handle this sort of behavior. I would ask your CT or administration what those policies are because you’ll want to follow them. I would reassert yourself as the teacher, and let students know what appropriate communication looks like in the classroom. Model to students how mature and appropriate students behave and set high expectations for them.

I would talk to your supervisor and see if they have any solutions for this. I had the same thing happen to me during my internship but my CT shut it down very quickly.

This kind of behavior cannot be tolerated in the classroom and has to be dealt with quickly. Speak to your CT about how to nip this quickly the next time it happens. The student will get one warning, after that it's a trip to the office so he can explain exactly what he said to you or his friends to the principle or on the phone to his parents. He's 18, he is an adult, and he has to learn the consequences of actions such as this. Even as a teacher, this is still sexual harassment.

Ask your CT to make a phone call home, or schedule a conference with you, the CT and a parent. The behavior should be ignored from you, but it cannot continue.

Talk to your supervisor or clinical instructor immediately. If you have already discussed this with the CT and the school administration, and they have not done anything about it, your school needs to be aware of the situation, for many different reasons.

Given the tricky nature of this situation, and that you have already made attempts to confronts this issue, I would make sure that you contact your University supervisor to inform them of the situation. The supervisor will help you to either find a way of dealing with the problem or to help you get out of the situation.

In the previous solutions there is some controversy of whether it should be ignored or if the comments should be addressed. I think that there are times when ignoring it is the best and other times when confronting the comments directly would be the best. To decide weather to ignore or address the comment depends on knowing your students. If the student said it only where you can hear it and they seem to be looking for a reaction from you then it would be best to ignore the comment and not react to the student. If the student is making the comment in from of a group of students or the whole class than it would be better to address that the comments were inappropriate. Depending on the level of the students and the subjects that you teach, you may be able to squeeze in a lesson on appropriate comments, communications, or social skills about professional relationships with people such as teachers or their future boss.

I would talk to the CT and explain your concerns. I would try to see if you can leave and do other work during the block that the student is in. You should definitely not just brush off this behavior. Its sexual harassment.

I would also feel very uncomfortable with this. The next time I heard something I would write the student up. If he fights this, I would explain to him that I am not a peer: I am a teacher. Additionally, the fact that I am a teacher should not alter the respect you have for women. This behavior is continuing because nothing is being done about it. If a referral/detention doesn't work, I would see if there is a male teacher in his world that he respects and talk to them. Maybe they can reason with the student.

Discuss with the student that there is a no tolerance policy on that kind of talk. Bring in a LEO to make sure the student understands how serious the situation is.

There should be some kind of policy in place because this is not fair to you as a teacher. Administration should have your back in this situation and it is definitely something that I would take to district if need be.

This sounds like something I would struggle with too especially as a younger high school teacher. A solution could be to ignore them and hope it goes away or talk to them individually about the innapropiate behavior, or you could always get admin involved.

I understand your frustration and would be uncomfortable too, however, he may be doing it to get a reaction from you. I would try to ignore it as best as possible. Then he may realize it isn't working being inappropriate and will stop.