This is such a good philosophy, these are the teachers and professors you remember most fondly. It is a good rule of thumb for parenting too. Imagine if there were fewer bulldozer parents and more warm demanders...
My grad school experience at Relay GSE centered around the warm demanding approach. It works on so many levels, but I especially found it useful with middle schoolers. At the MS level, without the warm part you might as well be up a creek without a paddle.
The warm demander is certainly worthy of a manifesto.I read about this in Zarreta Hammond’s book, and I have always thought it is a perfect tear-down of the authoritarian style that promises results through a “rigor” rooted in hubris and withholding. The structure & the high expectations are the save, the salve to the tension between empathy and unhealthy permissiveness.
This is such a good philosophy, these are the teachers and professors you remember most fondly. It is a good rule of thumb for parenting too. Imagine if there were fewer bulldozer parents and more warm demanders...
Thanks Kendall. Yes indeed. We need fewer bulldozers and more gardeners...
My grad school experience at Relay GSE centered around the warm demanding approach. It works on so many levels, but I especially found it useful with middle schoolers. At the MS level, without the warm part you might as well be up a creek without a paddle.
Great article!
A provocative piece!
The warm demander is certainly worthy of a manifesto.I read about this in Zarreta Hammond’s book, and I have always thought it is a perfect tear-down of the authoritarian style that promises results through a “rigor” rooted in hubris and withholding. The structure & the high expectations are the save, the salve to the tension between empathy and unhealthy permissiveness.
"The struggle is not the point, but it is an unavoidable part of growing." Wow. Yes!