What's going on?
Do you give yourself long enough to see what’s going on?
+ That group of kids in the corner - are they wasting time, or is the conversation nuanced and full of interesting ideas?
+ That group of boisterous boys who keep wrestling - do you stop it quickly, or have you got close enough to see the controlled movement?
You can respond to those nuanced ideas.
That controlled movement is an exercise in restraint.
If we don’t take the time to see what’s happening, we can easily read these kinds of things negatively. That negative reading constrains our ability to respond to and influence learning. Giving ourselves time to see more of the student helps us flip that.