Students are not the enemy
by Scott McLeod
I’m getting SO tired of this. Rather than asking ourselves why students feel the need to go around the restrictions – and treating those answers with the genuine respect and interest that they deserve – we treat our students like we might little street urchin pickpockets.
Alfie Kohn said in The Homework Myth: “The way we think about discipline seems to assume, as educational psychologist Marilyn Watson remarked, that Thomas Hobbes’ famous characterization of life also applies to children: They are nasty, brutish, and short.”
We are missing tremendous opportunities to foster efficacious, self-regulating, independent, thoughtful children. We reap what we sow…
via blog.genyes.com
My comment on Sylvia Martinez's post.
