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25 Biggest Mistakes Teachers Make and How to Avoid Them

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Scenario 16.7: When the Bough Cracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135<br />

Scenario 16.8: The Bereaved Must Leave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136<br />

Scenario 16.9: Children Must Be Seen <strong>and</strong> Heard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137<br />

Scenario 16.10: Stripped of Protective Coating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137<br />

Scenario 16.11: Turning a Deaf Ear <strong>to</strong> Bullyragging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138<br />

Mistake 17: Academic Shortcomings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141<br />

Scenario 17.1: Shame <strong>and</strong> Punishment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141<br />

Scenario 17.2: Ducking the S<strong>to</strong>ning Incident . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142<br />

Scenario 17.3: A Know-a-Little <strong>and</strong> a Know-It-All . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143<br />

Scenario 17.4: Academic Inquisition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144<br />

Scenario 17.5: Jumping <strong>to</strong> a Gender-Biased Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144<br />

Scenarios 17.6 <strong>and</strong> 17.7: Tread Lightly, but Do Tread . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145<br />

Scenario 17.8: All Talk <strong>and</strong> No Teaching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147<br />

Scenario 17.9: Don’t Know Fall From Autumn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148<br />

Scenario 17.10: Teaching Solo Students Can ’ t Hear You . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148<br />

Scenario 17.11: The Incarceration of Originality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149<br />

Mistake 18: Poor Administration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150<br />

Scenario 18.1: Duped Dancers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150<br />

Mistake 19: Teacher Reputation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152<br />

Scenario 19.1: Fearsome Reputations Often Precede People . . . . . . . . . . . . 152<br />

Mistake 20: Teacher Misjudgment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154<br />

Scenario 20.1: Shrinking Violet or Conceited Prima Donna? . . . . . . . . . . . . 154<br />

Scenario 20.2: Damsel in Distress? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155<br />

Scenario 20.3: Trust Me at Your Own Risk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156<br />

Scenario 20.4: The Whole Is Greater Than Its Parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157<br />

Scenario 20.5: Excluded! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157<br />

Scenario 20.6: To Err Is Human, <strong>to</strong> Admit It Is Divine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158<br />

Scenario 20.7: It’s Gobbledygook <strong>to</strong> Me . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159<br />

Scenario 20.8: Your Crime, My Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159<br />

6. TEACHING STYLE AND BEHAVIOR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161<br />

Mistake 21: Teacher Bias or Expectations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163<br />

Scenario 21.1: Once a Clown, Always a Clown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163<br />

Scenario 21.2: Dark Comedy of Gender Bias . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164<br />

Scenario 21.3: Justice for All . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164<br />

Scenario 21.4: Extraterrestrial Terror . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165<br />

Scenario 21.5: Liar, Liar, Your Habit ’ s on Fire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166<br />

Scenario 21.6: Cheater Watch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167<br />

Mistake 22: Unethical Behavior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168<br />

Scenarios 22.1 <strong>and</strong> 22.2: Keep Hope Alive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168<br />

Scenario 22.3: Out in the Cold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169<br />

Scenario 22.4: Bloody Secret . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170<br />

Scenario 22.5: A Lesson in Deception . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

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