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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]BUT - what you are explaining is not "Whole Child" - it is expectations of being a teacher.

When I hire someone, I do not need a special marketing program to teach them how to respond to email.  
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This.  I thought this was why hiring and salaries favor masters in education?

I'm a random businessperson and I know about the whole child concept for teaching.  If people are getting hired with this as a mystery, then there's a problem in the pipeline.[/quote]

It’s not a hiring problem it’s just a way to gaslight teachers. They put 30 kids in one class and expect teachers to control the room like Snow White and have a sweet and caring relationship with each kid. It’s impossible with the instructional demands and that many kids, but in a perfect world it would be possible so it’s the teachers fault when they aren’t able to achieve that.

Most teachers know all the best practices, they just don’t have the time to properly implement them because of class size. [/quote]

And add to the mix a few kids who have traumatic home situations that make building relationships with adults difficult. [/quote]

Teachers, I get how frustrating this job is. I've been there and am still there. But these are excuses not to try. Nobody thinks this is a cure all for everything but I need to push back on these statements bc they sound like excuses for not trying something that will help a large majority of your classroom. There will always be kids who need support outside of the Tier 1 instruction and SEL support you can provide in the classroom, but that doesn't mean this isn't worth implementing [/quote]

Over the years I have had a very difficult students with several kids coming from traumatic experiences, chronic absence and low performance academically. Although they were not in my classroom at the same time they were all so far from being able to access the curriculum I felt like having them in the classroom was absurd. I worked really hard to establish relationships - ignored the attention seeking behavior, pushing my buttons to get a reaction, refusing to do work, etc. and focused on building the relationship. I was able to develop personal relationships with all of them and believe they knew when they were in our classroom it was always a safe and loving place. Despite all my efforts, I could never build the same relationships with the families because there wasn't mutual interest. Academically, most of them made little progress and it wasn't because they weren't capable. For each one, I felt like they lost another year of school. I still have a good relationship with all of them but I guess the impact of that won't be obvious until years in the future. In each case none of them were ready to move onto the next grade and I always worried about them as they get closer to middle/high school.[/quote]

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