preview

Leslie's Intervention With Deville

Decent Essays

What did you think about the “intervention” with Deville? I think Deville has reason to be upset because he was not believing in keeping a promise. Leslie’s many effective-albeit-borderline-sketchy tactics. She has many moments where she handles things in a way that does not mirror school regulations most of which yield successful outcomes. I think that the intervention was necessary, given that suspensions, threats from the school, and Leslie screaming at him did nothing. Hearing those words of his peers took him to a place he was ashamed of, and I think Leslie made the right decision. 5. After reading chapter 19-26, jot down your thoughts about the events that took place in the story. These parts contained a lot of important content. There was the bathroom scene, where Leslie lamented and cried with the girls about the unfairness of the situation; …show more content…

When she got the fighting under control, there were days that she could not command the attention of the room. I think she realized the administration wasn’t going to do anything more than suspend the students, which wasn’t considered a punishment by them, and that she developed her own strategies of classroom management that were ultimately successful. Teaching strategies Many of Leslie’s teaching strategies were somewhat questionable and often not by-the-book, but I think that’s what made her a great teacher. I think that showing up to these kids’ houses near Christmas, taking them in her own car to visit a charter school, bringing a snake her cat dragged in for educational show-and-tell, and allowing some religious aspects to enter her room all were decisions she made that benefitted every kid in her room. I think that no teacher is perfect, and she wasn’t either: but I believe that every day, she gave her all to do what was best for her students, and that’s all you can ask

Get Access