Fix your least favorite class
Teachers are told to handle these five categories of "high need students." Seriously.
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Click on a category!
Are these descriptions accurate for you? Do they understand how you act?
These are the strategies teacher trainers suggest for dealing with the category you selected:
Choose a category above!
Reading that either gave you some ideas ways your teacher could make class more chill or made you think, "Woah, this SUCKS. THAT'S WHY my teacher's been trying to treat me this way?!"
Good teachers handle every student differently. Bad teachers treat every student the same, no matter what they need. Bad teachers might also treat you differently... in a bad way.
Your job is to understand how you want to be treated and make it a reality.
Choose one thing that will make your life easier:
Gas me up when I succeed
have more empathy when you punish me
help me build time management skills
stop just frowning at me/eyeing me when I mess up
stop talking down to me when I don't understand something
don't pretend I don't exist when I do something wrong
Stop treating me exactly like every other student when I need different things
Anything from your strategies list above or another problem you have in class (double tap edit this textbox!)
Choose one thing that will make your teacher's life easier
Start a conversation. Here's a personalized script based on the options you suggested:
Make sure to select options above for a personalized script! Here's a generic template:
This script is emotionally available: it honestly says what you do wrong in class. That honesty will build trust with the teacher. This script is empathetic: it doesn't force change on the teacher, instead making sure they get something they want in exchange.
You're probably reading this because more than half the class is pressed about the teacher, and any one of you is too scared to say something alone...
Time to fix it: Put all your notes together into one google doc, and choose to either anonymously send it to your assistant principal or send it to ben [@] fix.school. We'll email the teacher ourselves - that way, they won't get into any trouble with the school.