Chapter Fourteen

I really enjoyed this chapter because even though I knew that the systems approach was less effective, I thought they did a great job of explaining why. This chapter also went back and touched on the key concepts of the love and logic method. "The Tale of Two Teachers" gave a great example of love and logic. When the studnets in my class forgot their homework, they had to stay in at recess to finish it. This meant that the teacher had to make another copy and I think the students took it as more time to procrastinate. If they were playing and having fun at home, they knew they could always do it the next day at school. It was so frustrating because I would have at least 5 students forget or just not do their homework each week. I wish I would have used this method instead of going through the trouble of always making more copies. I think it would make the students more responsible if they knew they would just get a zero. But it is so important to use empathy during this stage because I could see a couple of my students not turning in homework just because they got a zero last time and they think the teacher dislikes them.