Chapter 9

The book mentions the importance of really pushing students and staying with them. The idea of giving up on a student for any reason seems so difficult for me to really understand. But I can see how in same cases a teacher might feel like it's easier to just give up. But then what does the student think, why would the student have any desire to try, there aren't any expectations any more. A teacher can't give up, although it has to be the most difficult thing ever to be a teacher and ivest all of your time into a student or a group of students just to see them fail. Any good teacher who sees a student fail will feel as if they failed a little bit too. The trick is to just keep going, a teacher's goal isn't to simply get kids the grade, but to help them come to understandings and to learn how to have faith in themselves. One thing this makes me think of is in the school I am doing my practicum time in, there is one group labelled the "D" group, they know who they are and they know they've been labelled the "D" group for a reason. In class so many of them see no reason to really try. Come to think of it, this entire 8th grade class has been listed as a trouble class since kindergarden. I mean come on.