According to Love and Logic, it does not mean anything if th…

According to Love and Logic, it does not mean anything if the teacher simply lets the students know that if they can’t solve the problem or choose not to…the teacher will do something. The teacher has to tell the students what he/she is exactly going to do.

Shanelle, one of your students, is loud and prone to leading…

Shanelle, one of your students, is loud and prone to leading the other students in minor misbehavior – chatting, dawdling, or passing notes. She’s like a rain cloud…whatever students she’s around are likely to be unhappy or engaged in some sort of conflict. By comparison, Eldon, another student in your class, seems “easy” to manage… he is extremely quiet and helpful and generally gets along well with people, although he does seem to do a fair amount of daydreaming and sometimes avoids his work. Sometimes you even forget he’s in your class. In terms of management concerns,

Mr. Washington allows his lesson times to “go with the flow;…

Mr. Washington allows his lesson times to “go with the flow;” that is, he simply begins teaching in the morning and lets each lesson last as long as it needs to last. He also varies the order of his content presentations, doing math first on some days and reading first on other days; he may allocate an hour to science on Monday, not teach it at all on Tuesday, and give it a half hour on Wednesday. His system is