What Students Want vs. What Students Need By David Ginsburg

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As educators, we must always do our best to assess and accommodate students' needs. Sometimes, of course, what students need clashes with what students want. Examples from previous posts include:

not grading students' class work ("Why should I do it if you're not going to grade it?")
requiring students to earn teachers' help by exhausting all other resources ("What do you mean, you won't help me? You're the teacher!")
assigning students to groups rather than letting them choose their own groups ("I work better with my friends.")

We saw another illustration of this in my last post where science teacher Alli Romano shared her students' response when she insisted they research information instead of her presenting it to them. "They understand that copying down takes less brain power, and that's why they want to do it. It's easier," Alli said. "But I don't think they're learning as much."

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