I learned a valuable lesson the other day. One of my students completely shut down. The student was managing along, but all of the sudden the motivation disappeared and behavior problems started to rise. After a few classes of this I finally got in touch with someone who knew the child. Turns out the kid was lost and just wouldn’t (or couldn’t) ask for help. We decided to pair up the student with someone who’s doing very well (and I know just who) and have them work together.
I haven’t remedied the solution yet, but the lesson I’ve learned is that sometimes when a student refuses to do work they’re really just asking for help.
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