Lost at School Chapter 7
Chapter 7: Meeting of the minds Big Question - How are we going to reduce the negative impact of the challenging student on the learning and safety of their classmates? What I took from this chapter is the idea of Plan B for every student. 24 brains are better than one when deciding on ways of solving a problem. For example - problems moving from one task to another - we all have this feeling of annoyance when we are 'into' some task and the teacher says it is time to put that away. By engaging the whole class in creating the solution to a problem - it empowers the whole class to participate in the solution they have constructed. In this example of 'task changing' - it may be that the class decide the teacher needs to give more warning of this, and also tell the class when they will be able to return to the task they wanted to continue. "Fair does not mean equal." - "In our classroom everyone gets what they need, " and In our classroom, we help ea...