FIND WAYS TO RELATE WELL WITH YOUR FEW MOST PROBLEMATIC STUDENTS
Daly is a teacher and adjunct professor in California.
He believes that teachers need to:
He believes that teachers need to:
- Adopt a different attitude or method when dealing with behavioral issues with students and recognize that the solution often lies within the teacher.
- Establish strong personal connections with the few students who cause the most problems.
- Reach out effectively to misbehaving students.
- Use tactics such as: "walk and talk." Walk along with hard-to-manage students and talk about anything they would like to discuss, thus forming a better connection.
- Make things happen for themselves; the students are not going to reach out to you if you do not make yourself approachable.
- Believe that most underachieving kids want to do well, even if their behavior doesn't indicate it.