So far this book has provided useful info for me to go on for teaching, this chapter especially. I know that I always worry about what do I do when the class gets out of control; and I know many of you think the same thing. This chapter has many examples of what we need to do to not let the students get the best of us. It is encouraging see what teachers have done when dealing with scary situations. I remember many times when I was in school, and not just high school, were there were knives, drugs, and other items that were used to terrorize fellow classmates, schoolmate, teachers, and even principles. When the example of the teacher standing up to the student who is treatening her with a lighter because she won't let him leave (pg. 97-98), I thought "Wow!! I hope that is something only half as bad and firghtening as that comes up I have that much guts to deal the situation.
I also really liked Nacy Rosenbaum's "Big Bucks" approach to getting uninterested students interested in the subject(s) at hand. I have for a while now have been think of doing something similar in my future classroom to help get students motivated to read for class and do thier writing assignments. It was good and interesting to see a plan like that being put into action and being sucessful.
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I agree this episode with the lighter and student is frightening, just in the fact that it happened, but wonder if the student would have tried that with a male teacher? As a teacher, I would assume that you would be allowed to "remove" such a threat. Whether the removal is by administration removing him, or the teacher immediately removing the threat from in front of them. I don't think I would sit idle. I wonder what the guidelines are?
Yea- we can read a lot about how to handle classroom situations, but it is not always that easy when we are in that situation.
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