Rules of Teaching Part Five

51. "Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone, just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you have had." F Scott Fitzgerald
52. Students want to belong to their family, and want to be accepted as similar to their family. If members of their family did not succeed, the student may not wish to succeed because it would be showing up their parents, diminishing their ideal of the parent by taking their own life beyond it. The student puts internal pressure on themselves to preserve the position of their parent.
53. Conversely, parents and siblings can put external pressure on a student not to do well because of jealousy.
54. Be fair to all, do not expect the work of one student to another.
55. People always try to make their enviornment more inhaitable. that is why they so often pretned to be somehwere else.
56. I am in the service industry, whether I like it or not. whatever you need you have the righ to ask for my help.
57. Be agile and mobile checking in on groups. Do not stay with any group for long because it disrupts the learning dynamic.
58. If a student is not paying attention or participating, concentrate on exploring ways that they can become more involved and interactive rather than focus on "not sleeping, et al"
59. When correcting behavior, concentrate on explaining to the student whu you expect it, why the student needs it, and that you need the student to set an example for the rest of the class. You need their leadership.
60. If you grade something, pay enough attention to it to be able to defend the grade.