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You are spot on. Far too often we look for kids to exhibit “perfect behavior”. Sit up straight, look at me when I’m talking, do your work quietly…and on and on. Yet, our environments don’t set the proper tone…they don’t match the pulse of the students we serve and as a result, many students are not interested in what we have to offer and are bored beyond imagination. We. The adults, the teachers, the leaders must do better in order to expect the best. I own that. I’m so glad that you wrote this article. It’s the truth and we need to ask ourselves if we are the discipline problem Jair sure!
ReplyThanks so much for this clarification and the specific examples. I will keep this as a ready resource for myself and possibly others, like parents, co-educators, etc.
ReplyI totally agree that the two are totally different, however behavior comes out of lack of motivation and vice versa. Many people I work with say that an ESE student should not fail my classes, however I totally disagree, because if the student is failing because he can’t do the work that is one thing, however many times it is because they refuse to do anything. I go as far as I can go. I refuse to the write the assignment for them. Seriously this is what they want us to do. They won’t even write their name on the paper. They are those students that usually don’t have a good base at home nor any good role models to copy, but this is not an excuse. When we allow this to be an excuse we are doing our students a disservice. They won’t get any compensation in the work force if they don’t follow through and complete the task at hand. They have to learn this at some point in their life or they will be hurting all around because they won’t be able to support themselves and get anywhere in life. `
ReplyMy favorite part of this article is this:
Discipline problems need to be addressed so that others can learn. Motivation problems need to be addressed so that the individual student can learn.
To me, that’s it in a nutshell. Yes, sometimes they can overlap, but how to handle them does need to be focused on who is having the hard time learning.
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