In each episode of the Ponders Out Loud podcast, Steve will offer insight on important educational topics, answer questions, and explore educational best practices, based on his over-30-year career as an education consultant to school districts, teacher organizations, state departments of education, and colleges and universities nationally and internationally.
In this episode, Kyle Coppes, a secondary Principal, shares the thinking behind an opinion piece he wrote titled, Student Laziness Is a Myth. Here’s Why. “The belief that laziness exists will limit the behavior of any teacher who encounters it, and that is harmful. Essentially, it is a teacher’s get-out-of-jail-free card: If a student does not complete a task on time, and if laziness is the culprit, then giving a zero or assigning detention is the right tool for the job.” How do you explore teachers’ beliefs and generate reflection upon those beliefs as part of coaching?
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For the past 40 years, Steve Barkley has served as an educational consultant to school districts, teacher organizations, state departments of education, and colleges and universities nationally and internationally, facilitating the changes necessary for them to reach students and successfully prepare them for the 21st century.
Dr. Kyle Coppes is the secondary school Principal at Metropolitan School Frankfurt in Germany. He’s been a teacher, department coordinator, International Baccalaureate coordinator, Assistant Principal, and Principal at schools in Africa, Asia, and Europe for the past 15 years.
