Tag Archives: Self-harm
Positive Emotional Balance: How to get it and how to lose it.
Part 1: Doing Magic with Dysfunctional Students I’m not much of an instant believer. I tend to listen, consider, then look for a demonstration of the principle in action. Using the buzzwords of the last decade, I look for someone who can walk the talk. So, when I first read Steven Covey’s “Seven Habits of …
Prison Better then Home
How bad can it possibly be for our students today? Are the ones who present as argumentative, uncooperative, disruptive, aggressive and sometimes violent, evil people or is there something going on that dedicated, caring teachers are missing? Danny, Evan’s older and protective brother, was charged, convicted and transported to a Youth Detention facility (kids’ jail) …
Looking Below the Surface of Student Opposition
They make our lives as teachers extremely stressful. They oppose whatever we are doing in class. They influence other students to rebel. They are aggressive and are potentially violent. They seem to care about nothing. Their own education is not on their list of priorities. They are drifting into a lacklustre future and they don’t …
The Hugsman Hotline 