I have to say I agree with his three styles of teaching. Unfortunately, I must admit that I am working my way out of the helicopter stage and hopefully into a consultant teaching style. :) Looking back, it was not because I didn't know about the ways of being a "consultant" teacher. I've always wanted to have those traits, but student teaching came as such a shock, this is ultimately how I dealt with it. I definitely wish I could start over again, but now I can just work hard to start my first job using all of these traits.
The story about the cognitively impaired student who spilled her food showed a very strong point. It is so frustrating when students mess up, but the only way they will learn is to experience dealing with it. This chapter also gave me several ideas for how to give students choices. I'm always looking for ways to do this, but I need to be particularly careful with what choices I give because I have a class full of students looking for the easiest and fastest way out of every assignment!
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