Day: February 9, 2019

Lollygagger or learning difference??

How do schools create ‘lollygaggers’? Teacher and TA dynamics   I was pretty disheartened by a post from Ben Newmark, expressing frustration at the ‘lollygaggers’ in his classroom, the needy children with ‘learned helplessness’. Apparently, his most read post. What is particularly worrying is…