Classroom-based or moving between classes? Do you have your own room or do you travel from class to class? I have always travelled, I used to envy classroom teachers because they could keep resources in one place, everything was accessible to students and there was no chance of forgetting resources. They also had the benefit of having plenty of resources, games and tasks that students could complete once they had finished their tasks. To offer …
Attention Seeking When I was classroom teaching many years ago, I had a student who would not stop talking to me. She talked all day, everyday! I used to see this as attention seeking, or task avoidance but then I read a quote which said “attention seeking is connection seeking”. This changed my whole outlook. She didn’t crave attention, she was craving connection. Once I acknowledged what she was telling me, I gave her a …
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