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People always jump to conclusion about kids behavior issues. rather that had some empathy to understand why he or she does that. Dr. Bridgman first convinced Joey, Joey’s mother, and Mrs. Woods to sit down and try to develop a “Plan B” for Joey. They all three struggled, but little by little they identified Joey’s lagging skills and came up with a plan to help Joey overcome the problem. Once Joey started to benefit from his plan, Mrs. Wood worked with her colleague, Ms. Franco on how to use the formula for Plan : Empathy , defining the problem, and invitation to the student to help in their own plan. I think is a great idea involve students in their plan to improve. As teacher work in community is essential because students need to feel the support from others around them.  When Ms. Franco used the Plan B, she has some difficulty, but she continued  working with her student until she had a breakthrough.Chapter 6 talk about Mrs. Wood is using a effective strategies to manage Joey behaviour in classroom.

If you were to ask the same open-ended question as Mrs. Woods does about the kids in her class not getting along, what types of issues do you imagine would surface in your class?