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04 February 2005: You Can Handle Them All (1 of 4)
While doing some of my regular trolling-for-resources web browsing, I came across a fascinating website I wanted to share. It's called Discipline Help: You Can Handle Them All ().
Here, the authors have identified 117 student behaviors that often hinder success in traditional classrooms. Frankly, it's worth checking out just so that you can browse the list. The list includes The Underachiever, The Procrastinator, and The Attention Demander. My personal favorites include The Apple Polisher (code for Brown-Noser) and The Goldbrick (aka Something For Nothing).
I would challenge you to find one of your students whose issues are not addressed somewhere on this list. Of course, this is not to suggest that students don't come to the table with their individual needs and personalities. On the other hand, if there were not patterns to these things, no one would have listened to dear old Sigmund.
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