Give kids space to solve their own problems; it helps them be more resilient


By AGENCY
  • Family
  • Thursday, 10 Apr 2025

Only solve your students' problems when failure to solve the problem may cause them to be seriously injured. — Dreamstime/TNS

QUESTION: I teach fourth grade. I have a student who always loses the papers that he’s supposed to have in spite of the fact that students have colour-coded folders for each subject and were taught at the beginning of the year to put every paper in a folder, and to not have loose papers in their desks.

He is doing this intentionally to get attention. I know this because when he is asked to stay in at recess to find the paper, he will find it almost immediately.

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