Fires in the Bathroom chapter 4

When creating a culture for success in your classroom, you need to assign work that really matters, as well as provide a healthy support system for your class. The most important piece in a successful classroom is trust. If your students trust you and you trust your students then everything will run smoothly for the most part. If your students do not trust you they will think that the material that you are teaching isn’t as important as I really is. There are going to be times where your students are going to have issues at home, so there will be times when a student doesn’t get their work done on time. Students think that it is unfair to not allow them make up what they didn’t do. I believe that they need a sincere reason for them to be able to make up the homework that they didn’t do to receive full credit. If a student just doesn’t do their work, I will not allow them to receive full credit, because then it is unfair to the students who did do their work on time. Also if you are a student who doesn’t do the work on time, and you know you will receive full credit when you get it done, you will just do it on your own time when you feel like it.
A large piece of this chapter is showing belief in students. Examples that were given were remind us of that you expect our best, encourage efforts even if they are having trouble, and give helpful feedback and expect them to revise. The most important on to me is providing helpful feedback and expect them to revise. Revising and reflecting are great ways for students to see what they missed on a certain assignment, and what they can do to improve it. Allowing them to rework their assignments provides a deeper understanding so that they show what they know, rather than just taking a C and never looking at the assignment again. School is in place to teach kids and to see what they understand, not to see if they can make it through just going through the motions.
One thing I liked about this chapter is avoiding the impression that right answers matter more than others. People have different opinions on everything. In a history class, if you asked the question “What caused the Civil War” you are going to get many answers. You can’t call one of them right. You can let them know that their answer is good by how well they explained it, yes and no should not be involved.