Working With ‘Difficult’ Students – Part Two is the headline of my latest column at Education Week Teacher.
In it, Annette Breaux, Cheryl Mizerny, Jeryl-Ann Asaro and Stan Croft share their responses on working with “difficult” students.
Here are some excerpts:
These quotes certainly show the teacher meeting the student much more than half-way. Is the student expected to lift a finger in this regard? Or not? (Re: George W. Bush’s “bigotry of low expectations”) What’s going to happen when s/he reaches adulthood? Ought judges adopt the same view/modus operandi in the courtroom?