What Great Teachers Do Differently - Don't Need to Repair - Always Do Repair

As we continue through the book "What Great Teachers Do Differently" by Todd Whitaker, chapter 11 is on helping students repair situations.  Effective teachers give students processes that will help them throughout their life.  One of these processes is to repair a situation in which someone was offended or wronged.

It can be as simple as teaching kids how and when to say "I'm sorry".  More importantly, it's modeling this type of behavior for your students.  If as a teacher, you get upset at your class for not following through on a certain project or directions.  It's OK to be upset and we are all human and will react in a way that we know how, but it's what you do after that really counts.  Effective teachers will apologize for their behavior.  Apologizing does not mean the teacher was wrong for what they did, it simply shows they care enough to try to repair any damage he/she might have done the previous day when being upset.