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Mandatory group work. I hated mandatory group work. There were times I would work with others, but I despised being told I had to and that my grade depended on others in my group. So in my class, group work is always optional, and if someone flakes, it won’t reflect in others’ grades.
My district basically mandates "Group work", AKA group wasting time at middle school. No school talk, just noise. It doesn't work. You can't put a group of kids that can't multiply together in a group to solve complex problems. But, it sure looks good. Oh, we also have "21st Century Furniture" that basically prevents individual work, too.
Shaming. I was a bit distracted when I was in elementary school and I tended to call out a lot or zone out, to the point that I was (wrongly) diagnosed with ADD and put on Ritalin. I was a particular challenge for my 5th grade teacher and to make me behave she came up with a tally system. Each time I did something wrong she gave me a tally and if I got a certain number I would get some kind of consequence. The issue is she kept track of it on the board and my name was written there and never erased so the entire class saw. I begged her to at least keep track of it in a notebook or on a post it but she refused. It was traumatizing.
Having students think we are out to get them.
Participation. As a shy kid I hated having to share out all the time just to have the teacher forget me.
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Being put on the spot, being asked a question without an “out.” When I see a kid feeling the way I did, I say you don’t have to answer now or you can ask a friend. Then a lot of kids offer to help the kid that has lost their words.
Reading aloud in class. I am dyslexic , so I read slowly out loud. My teacher would go down the row having each child read a paragraph. I would practice reading my paragraph instead of listening to questions or the story. Then, if asked a question about it, I never knew the answer.
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The read aloud was awful! We did it in 10th grade. I waited and anxiously waited to be randomly called on. I was never called on to read ALL year! I hated that teacher. I realized years later she must have been scared of me because I dressed kind of punk/goth style. Doesn’t mean I didn’t want to read!
The teacher is always right. I admit when I make a mistake or if I don’t know something. It’s important for students to realize that it’s okay to be wrong and admit it, or to make a mistake.
The summer after my first year of teaching my district gave me the chance to travel to Colorado to take a really cool geology course. I jumped at it. In the design of the course we spent 3 days in the classroom from 8am-4pm in lecture. All day. We had a 20 minute lunch break. It was compressed so that we could spend the rest of the week roaming the mountains looking at examples of all the things we'd studied but those long days sitting were torture. I was fidgety, frustrated and openly contemplating rebellion. And that was me, the licensed teacher who chose to be there! After that class I adopted a firm "you don't have to sit there" policy. Now my class knows they can swap chairs, sit on a rocking stool, lay on the floor, sit on the carpet, I care zero percent where they choose to do their work as long as they are paying attention and getting their assignments done.