Teaching Students Who have Failed In – and Been Failed By – Traditional Schooling

These interviews with my students will help you understand the complicated prior experiences with school and with math that they bring to my classroom.

interview: Donny
Donny's very insightful commentary regarding his educational history provides any teacher with perspective.
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Interview: Donny

Donny's very insightful commentary regarding his educational history provides any teacher with perspective. He points specifically to what many educators refer to as "gaps in education" and how he realized that one "nice" teacher in particular wanted to address them.
His responses to the interview clearly describe how a fifteen year old boy has internalized failure and is struggling to overcome it. However challenging Donny is for me, I constantly have to remind myself (if Donny hasn't already done so in his own way) that his improvement and ultimate success will happen over time and not right when I want it to happen or expect that it should happen.