A🧵 On Compliance (1/9)
Once upon a time, I had a student in my class who was often dysregulated when he entered the classroom and always on the move. He was an ADHDer.
I invites his family to collaborate on strategies for regulation....
🍎 #2e #ADHD #humancenteredteaching
Once upon a time, I had a student in my class who was often dysregulated when he entered the classroom and always on the move. He was an ADHDer.
I invites his family to collaborate on strategies for regulation....
🍎 #2e #ADHD #humancenteredteaching
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My classroom was as removed from a compliance based classroom as I could get within the school system. There were grades and grading policies I had to follow. There were cell phone rules that I had no choice on.
This was almost always messy at the beginning of the year, AND we built a community.
His family said, "He does better in really strict classrooms. Don't let him do X."
I said, "Would you be open to trying X strategy to see if he can learn how to regulate before entering the classroom?"
And here's the thing...this wonderful and amazing kid had spend NINE years of school complying and learning to "behave" by not tapping his knee constantly and suppressing his emotions.
The things he learned he brain could do when school bent just a little to who he was were truly AMAZING.
He also learned that he loved learning and could like school.
And then the next year, all the teacher wanted was compliance.