Tag Archives: Student
Balancing The Ledger with Dysfunctional Youth
I’d just committed the ultimate sin of teaching: I had gone ballistic at a student who had taken his mobile phone out in class, and had dialled 000, the Australian emergency response number, over and over again. As he laughed, he encouraged the other students in my Alternative Education Program class to follow his lead. …
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 …
With Troubled Youth: Seek First to Understand
We have no idea. As teachers, very few of us have any real understanding of the world in which our ‘worst’ students live. We know little of what motivates them, what they care about. We don’t know what they want from life. We don’t know the things that terrified them. We know not what they …
The Hugsman Hotline 