Today was a major breakthrough, my student who refuses to work finally broke today. I put on the board that it was the last day to turn in work from the Word section of the book. We are going to start Excel tomorrow and I wanted to give the kids a chance to finish the work they have not got turned in yet. Ronald has not even open the book, today the first assignment he turned to was the knowledge check and I saw him staring at them with no action so I told him that if he could get the rest of the work finished I would give him a 100 on the knowledge check. I am not sure why he thought he could finish a weeks worth of work in a day but he did, he went to work and never stopped till the bell rang. In Teaching with Love and Logic it talks about giving choices, I gave him a choice and he finally understood that I was not going to beg him to work. He is not going to receive that 100 but he did earn some credit with me today. I think that kids are starting to understand my style and are working very hard, I have a couple females in the class who would rather talk to me that work and I am working on closing that down. I am not sure if I did something to make Ronald work or if he was just scared that he was going to fail, but either way he worked today and I liked it.
One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.
William Feather
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