A2C - Youth Drama
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A2C - Youth Drama
@ACT2CAM
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Whitley Bay Katılım Kasım 2010
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@TolentinoTeach The system is the problem, not the teacher, not the kids. Imagine the change if you could teach the kids how you knew they needed to be taught.
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Many teachers carry knowledge and ideas that could genuinely change students’ lives.
But so much of that potential never comes to fruition because many students simply do not care enough to engage with it.
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Is the outrage over Spygate understandable? An act of crass stupidity, I’ll grant you. But this is less Philby and Burgess and more Laurel and Hardy. Some hapless intern is sent to film from 400M on his smart phone the Middlesbrough team kicking footballs. What searing insights would the Southampton side have got? ‘Ok boss they’re kicking the ball with both their left and right feet. Sometimes they’re heading it.’ It’s all so silly. Southampton look like a right bunch of Charlies. But in the pantheon of great sporting scandals, this is pimple sized
Henry Winter@henrywinter
The outrage about Spygate is understandable. If proven, it’s cheating. It’s seeking to gain a sporting advantage over an opponent. Let’s hope this ire is also now focused on other varieties of cheating in football, namely the amount of deceit that can stain games... 1/2
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Parent: “If I was micromanaging everything about my child down to what socks he wears, if I was telling him he couldn’t go to the toilet when he needed to go to the toilet, I would be in front of social services.”
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@richardajkeys Yeah that's why they did it. To have no effect on games
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Are we really suggesting Spygate in any way affected the outcome of the s/f? Behave.
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The Devil Wears Dada would be an interesting film.
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Awesome confirmation bias experiment, here.
𒐪@SHL0MS
i just generated an image in the style of a Monet painting using AI please describe, in as much detail as possible, what makes this inferior to a real Monet painting
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@Nuke_The_Site @legacyartsmedia @MrDanielBuck And I've responded to them as best I can, as a teacher who has worked in some of the most difficult school (areas of extreme poverty), and with some of the the hardest to reach of children.
""I value and respect you. I believe in you" is the most effective starting point.
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“But why is the student misbehaving? What’s the root cause?”
Maybe it’s the utter lack of consequences in his school and the implicit message that he can get away with anything, that teachers are worthy of respect, and that following the rules is for chumps
Maybe
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@Nuke_The_Site @MrDanielBuck I hear you mate, I think we've all been there.
But even in the worst schools I've taught in, disruption is not the norm, and rules can be enforced (with isolation, temporary, and permanent exclusion as consequences).
Teaching is tough, even for skilled, experienced teachers.
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@ACT2CAM @MrDanielBuck The result was that the school rotted. It started with a few, then gradually spread. More and more so it became impossible to start a lesson. Kids refused to listen. Argued about any reasonable instruction. Would not listen. Were on phones. Would not hand them over.....
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@Nuke_The_Site @MrDanielBuck Many schools have "zero tolerance" policies, and many schools successfully enforce them.
The proportion of excluded kids has risen overall in the UK over the last decade (to record highs in England, for example)
"Zero exclusions" is a myth.
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@ACT2CAM @MrDanielBuck Zero exclusions. Kids that would not have caused trouble normally were dragged into the abyss. Kids that wanted to learn did nothing as lessons could not be started. An academy trust took over and immediately started excluding the ones who refused to follow basic instructions.
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@Nuke_The_Site @MrDanielBuck Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are very common. We understand trauma better now than we used to, and we are better able to deal with it.
But "left to get away with no consequences" is not an accurate picture.
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@ACT2CAM @MrDanielBuck As for your question of root causes. That is the cause of SOME disruptions. Kids who were left to get away wo consequences, rotting a school. As for the others, I heard snippets:
Chaos at home
Angry kids because of something that happened
Children already living an adult life-
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@Nuke_The_Site @MrDanielBuck There's a false picture being painted here that is quite different from the truth.
Disruption, even in very difficult schools, is not the norm. Also, there are in fact alternatives (such as the alternative learning my company provides), where excluded children can be taught.
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@ACT2CAM @MrDanielBuck A complete lack of boundaries at home.
Kids that would be better out at work
Kids that don't want to be there.
There will be others....some completely out of the kids control.
We cannot have a situation where others cannot learn because of disruption. There must be alternatives
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@Nuke_The_Site @MrDanielBuck There are still hard schools to work at, and you can still teach. You can still exclude kids, and 1/4 of teachers also recently reported seeing soft off-rolling at their school.
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@ACT2CAM @MrDanielBuck I worked in a school in the UK in the early 90s. Kids were excluded for :
Swearing at a teacher.
Fighting/violence
Carrying weapons
Refusing to follow reasonable instructions
Disruptions
It was a hard school to work at but you could teach.
2002 it became v difficult to exclude
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@legacyartsmedia @Nuke_The_Site @MrDanielBuck Nah, the bottom line is "I value and respect you. I believe in you". Everything else flows from here, IMO
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@ACT2CAM @Nuke_The_Site @MrDanielBuck And yet it’s not to be psychoanalyzed. The bottom line is you are required to behave, and there will be consequences when you don’t. The moment a school tries to overthink this very basic concept they’ve already lost the plot.
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@AirStess @MrDanielBuck "it's about every student and their right to learn and a safe and effective environment."
Massively agree here. Every student!
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@AirStess @planebottle @MrDanielBuck Drink driving deterrents are great but you have to actually care.
Kids' art outside of schools works. You engender an emotional investment in rule-following.
Become the antagonist, and the usual suspects stop caring, and behave worse. Which is why whipping kids backfires
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