ASCD Inservice: How to Support Struggling Students

ASCD Inservice: How to Support Struggling Students

How to Support Struggling Students

Of all the challenging moments in teaching, it can be one of the most memorable: A student is marooned and bewildered in a lesson. You, the teacher, must find a way—carefully and intentionally—to bring back that student back to the path of learning.

Robyn Jackson and Claire Lambert know that pressure and have fought to help those lost students. Both are former teachers and authors of the new tool How to Support Struggling Students, the first in ASCD’s new Mastering the Principles of Great Teaching workbook series. Based on Jackson’s bestselling book, Never Work Harder Than Your Students and Other Principles of Great Teaching, each workbook in the new series will delve more deeply into the seven principles Jackson uses to describe mastery teaching.

How to Support Struggling Students examines the principles of supporting students before, during, and after instruction. It isn’t all about the content. “We are not only obligated to teach our discipline; we are also obligated to teach students strategies

Redirecting Student Behavior

Has this ever happened to you? You're trying out a pretty levelheaded approach to classroom management, the situation deteriorates, and before you know it, you're in a power struggle with your most challenging student.

Over at Teaching as a Dynamic Activity, 8th grade earth science teacher Jerrid Kruse gives a thoughtful, firsthand account of teacher trial and error, and trial again, with a student who pushes back on every attempt at positive engagement. It's heartening,