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. Teachers whose maturity, or lack thereof, causes them to need the praise, adulation, obedience, or emotional support of children forego the real impact they might have - of overseeing individual student acquisition of intrinsic motivation through love of a subject for that subject s own sake. Maturity is not the same thing as age. Think about your spouse or someone you know well.