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Originally posted by abaici
I have found that student success is based on expectations. If you expect your students to work hard and learn, for the most part they will. If you expect the very best of them behavior wise and follow up with it, they will behave. I have noticed that many teachers fell this way when they have low expectaions for their studnts.
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I agree.
And some of these lowered expectations can be subconscious, but the students can pick up on them. I am not a teacher, myself, but I used to mentor and tutor @ an afterschool program. I found that kids will certainly push your buttons. And, if you already see them as people who will never amount to anything, it is much easier to ignore the underlying causes of their behavior, and its easier to give up when the tasks become difficult. In poorer districts where students don't even have enough textbooks, it is clear to them that no one really cares how they spend the next 12 years of their lives.
And, if adults who are paid to
at least try, can dismiss them so easily, then what type of behavior can be expected? I hope they investigate not only how this teacher conducts his classroom, but also, if by design, these kids are destined to failed. Because I guarantee you, the kids already know.