The 9th essay discussed how teachers preserve what is working for students in a bureaucracy frequently bent on curtailing successful practices. The 10th essay looks at the critical ability to carry theory or policy into implementation and how to carry reflection on an implementation back into theory. The 11th focuses on how successful teachers make instruction interesting and sustain what is effective for students against a seeming barrage of bureaucracy and critique. This essay, the 12th, discusses professionalism and whose needs are met in the deregulated world of teacher certification. Many of these understandings of how to approach at-risk learners are based on M. Haberman, Star Teachers of Children in Poverty .
Kids are just great.
I need to be with kids. While it is not true in every single case, frequently, it is novices voicing this sentiment who has not been in settings where children behave independently on a routine basis. Teaching can become a manipulation sport. This deal works pretty well in the short run. Children reason, If we please Ms. Blake by doing her little assignment, she ll please us by giving us a bit extra recess.