Dena Budrecki's List: Administrative Support

• Stop Playing the Victim: Teachers and the Blame Game
• STOP BLAMING THE PREVIOUS TEACHER! Their job wasn’t to prepare students for your classroom
• Blaming the previous teacher might help us feel better, but how does it help the student?
• In continues a vicious cycle in which professionals degrade one another and neglect to do what is necessary to help kids.
• , it only applies to learning styles and attention span, not some abstract sense of responsibility.
• remember that in the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s many students who would have been “at-risk” or “troublemakers” were either never enrolled in school or dropped out at a much younger age and took jobs that no longer exist.
• emember that this is a parent who was probably let down by the education system a LONG time ago.
• very difficult parent you have to deal with is just another reason to try and break the cycle by making a difference with your students
• Imagine if you’re pediatrician said “How could you let this kid get this sick!” That’d be tough to handle. Parents and students alike count on us for an education.
• the main character has some not-so-nice words for the teacher…all the way back in 1946.
• eachers hold within them the power to change the world one child at a time.
• A teacher once believed in us and because this is true we owe it to our students to stop blaming other people and take responsibility for ensuring their learning.

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