Consistency in Classroom Management Could Imply That One Size Fits All
Manage episode 434009728 series 3237809
"While teachers use interventions to allow students to catch up with their learning results and use differentiation to make sure that learning tasks are appropriate, when it comes to behavior we often default to consistency as a panacea." -(Dave Whitaker)
Consistency is built when students sense the teacher’s usual, expected teacher behavior. Flexibility emerges when the teacher changes from that approach in response to a situation or individual student’s needs. Explore verbal structures teachers can use across a continuum of giving, sharing, or keeping the decision-making voice in a classroom.
Read "Consistency – or maybe a bit of flexible consistency?" by Dave Whitaker here.
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