Understanding student backgrounds

Description:
What happens when students in our class become disengaged? What is within our control as a teacher to respond to the disengaged student? In this session the presenter will explore some of the common manifestations of disengaged students and then suggest different approaches, to re-engage those students in the learning community. The key, as with so many behavioural issues, is preventative strategies and then restorative approaches once things have gone awry. This is a course for teachers who believe that all students not only have a right to learn but they want to learn, and that our challenge as teachers is to find ways to connect them to a learning community.

Standards addressed:

• 1.1.2 Physical, social and intellectual development and characteristics of learners
• 4.1.2 Support participation of learners

Course Length: 3 hours

Presenter: Brendan Tollit