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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There's two sides to the coin - If there are kids who are a repeat behavior problem from class to class, regardless of teacher, it is that student who is the problem and addressing the student's bad behavior is where focus needs to be.

But at the same time, if teachers have inadequate classroom management skills, that's certainly also a huge problem - check for example YouTube for videos with teachers displaying completely ineffective or even completely inappropriate behavior - some teachers really really don't know how to manage students and classrooms effectively, and that's something that the school administration needs to diagnose and deal with effectively as well.[/quote]

Agreed, but there is a huge difference between dealing with a small number of students with behavior difficulties in a class of so called "well behaved/respectful" students and having one class with all "dysfunctional" children who feed of each other. DCPS/Impact makes no distinction between the two, so a teacher that actually may not appear to have good skills may actually be doing a great job because normally those so called "dysfunctional" children might not even be in class, not listening at all rather than have their head on the desk but still listening, pacing around because they can't sit still, etc. Also, how do we expect new TFA with 5 week training to work with these students successfully, clearly for the most part those children aren't getting what they need and the teachers are getting used and abused. If IMPACT/DCPS would only admit that not all children are the same, some need different kinds of instruction (not watered down but meeting them where they are), and stop penalizing those who work with the hardest population and rewarding those that work with those that need the least support. [/quote]

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