Jeffrey Schillinger

Thank you, Cynthia. It is disappointing when we work with a student for quite a while, see some real progress, and than find that the student simply disappeared. We cannot get through to every student, nor will we always know why a student opts out of the program. If you are confident that you did all you could to help a student, (and in this case it seems like you did), you should not feel you let the student down. Your positive influence may yield the results you hoped for at a later date. The student knows what you did… >>>

Robert, I always found that staying a bit later tended to help me finish checking papers and planning lessons. Students tended to leave fairly quickly after class. Once I helped the ones who stayed, I had some uninterrupted time to get things done so that I was ready to go when I came in the next day. It is also important to build reasonable expectations in your students. Next day is notalways reasonable. I would tell them ahead of time when they should expect things to be graded and returned. If I told them three days, I mad sure they… >>>