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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The way it is handled at our CES which is the way I think it should be handled is that the kids are referred to the counselor. That's the counselor's job. Sometimes these kids disrupt the learning environment for everyone else. The teachers are understanding that they are struggling and help them make up the work but their response is to ask the child to leave the classroom and return when they are ready to learn.

These CES classes are huge, the curriculum moves fast, and there is no time for them to give extra coddling to these kids. [/quote]

I think you are talking about a different phenomenon. I'm talking about things like stressing growth over perfection, helping kids feel comfortable moving outside their comfort zone, helping kids understand that making mistakes is part of the process.

All classrooms should be doing this, but it is even more important in a context where a lot of these kids are being given challenging material for the first time in their lives.

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NP. At our CES, I did see evidence of support and awareness for these issues in the classroom. Also pushing kids who had gotten lazy to try harder and reach deeper for their work. And a lot of learning to listen to other students, giving constructive feedback, and learning to let their minds be changed by good evidence from students - discussions and assignments that emphasized how opinions get made and changed over just “being right.” Many of the students have had the “right answer” every time and stopped listening to their classmates years ago. I thought this was a great element of the program.[/quote]

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