Teachers encourage children to work through problems with one another so they can learn important social skills, such as negotiation and cooperation. But if children fight, bully, or exclude other children, teachers intervene. They know how to help children behave in a socially productive way. Because teachers don't allow the children to interact with each other very often, kids rarely have the opportunity to practice social skills. They don't intervene when a student bullies or hurts another child.
Teachers plan a clear curriculum with coherent learning goals.
The curriculum is flexible enough to adapt to children's interests, personal experiences, and home situations. Teachers have a rigid curriculum based on textbooks and workbooks that bear little or no connection to the children's lives and interests. or Teachers have no clear curriculum or goals. They do not follow up on lessons, and the class jumps from one subject to another without any apparent plan. Teachers and parents share useful, specific feedback about individual children's learning and development. Children's performance is reported to parents only in letter or number grades, which do not give parents helpful information about children's capabilities and areas of study.