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Millions of students walk on to school campuses ready to learn, desiring to gain knowledge, caring about being challenged. No student walks on a school campus wanting to be bored, requesting a disgruntled or insensible teacher, and desiring to fail.

Schools are places to foster learning - life-long learning. Babies ask, "Why?" on a continuous basis, and don't stop until . . . someone stops their creativity, halts their imagination, ends their desire to learn.

Students stop inquiring and stop wanting to learn once teachers do some of the worst things mentionable:

1. Not Facilitate Learning:

When teachers don't create learners by facilitating learning, something terribly wrong is occurring in the classroom. Assisting students with learning, guiding students in gaining new knowledge, and facilitating the understanding of new concepts and skills are crucial building blocks.

Students need to master content at one level to move on to the next level. If teachers are not facilitating learning, they're not preparing students for the next grade level.

Not facilitating learning inhibits the growth of knowledge and is one of the worst things a teacher can do.

2. Not Differentiate Instruction:

Teaching requires students to gain knowledge from the level of understanding they have mastered. Teaching requires students to be taught in various modes while using multiple teaching strategies and meeting various learning styles.

Teaching requires pre- and post-assessment, scaffolding of instruction, varying teaching according to the students' level (reading levels, math levels. . .).

Differentiating is the understanding that no two children are alike, no two children learn identically, enriching environments are necessary for learning, and differentiating is creating different paths to learning.

If differentiation isn't occurring, teaching and learning is not at its optimal levels and this is one of the worst things a teacher can do.

3. Not Honoring Individuality and Differences:

Teachers who do not honor individuality and differences are not respecting the group of students they are teaching. Just as no two students are alike in regards to their learning levels, students are also individuals who are uniquely different.

Students within classrooms come from various socio-economic backgrounds, have different cultural heritages, may speak a different primary language, and may have differing religious backgrounds.

The list is endless; so the need to honor differences and individuality

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