strategies & the use thereof

I keep thinking of new things I want to write about
things I have been pondering for years.

so here is another entry from me--

Often I think teachers use strategies (are told to use them with lots of ese kiddos), especially behavior strategies to avoid having to deal with an actual individual human being (aka student). E.g., I don't have to look in a student's eyes or try to reach that student where she is right now. I can pull a research-based strategy from my vast repertoire of strategies and use that on her, as if she were an animal I am to train instead of a human being to interact with, to teach and to learn from.

over-simplified, but important in my mind, based on my experience and what I have observed.

I'm not dismissing strategies, just the use of them to avoid the unpredictable and sometimes difficult interaction with another person.