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Originally Posted by Skull&Crossbones
Oh, I'm very aware of discipline issues in high school. I worked at a high school with a significant amount of low income families, immigrants, etc....so pretty much an "inner city" school. I worked in the special ed department so I've seen worse discipline issues than most teachers outside of special ed. And I'm certainly not someone who's afraid to step in and break up a fight as I've done it twice in the last year. I actually have a pretty good sense of when a fight will happen and then I can step in before it can escalate.
And honestly, the mild discipline issues (like constantly talking, not listening, and making noise) that continues through undergrad. I have no patience for it regardless, but I'm more forgiving of high school kids because it's part of where they are in their development.
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——I love Amicus’s answer to this above——But I thought this goes without saying, eg all of that on blooms I consider to be a part of intelligence. One of the things I liked best about my elem teacher training was the concept of multiple intelligences- that a person might not be good at one thing, or one aspect of thinking, but they might be very strong at something else. My partner taught high school, also with at risk kids and there is no way I would have been good at that. Apparently you are good at that and I don’t see yourself giving yourself credit for that or anything else. I worked w at risk kids also. They need you so much. What’s up?