Good Morning, Miss Motivator How Do You Deal with Unruly, Disruptive Pupils? One Strict Woman has the Answer - No More Fashion, Freedom or Tv . . . And No Messing with Miss Beckles
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IT'S testament to education guru Yolande Beckles's sheer force of personality that half an hour of talking to hermakes even adults question their self-discipline. Perhaps the TV should be off except at weekends. Perhaps the pile of books by the bed could be worked through quicker. Maybe a wider range of extra-curricular activities would make for a more wellrounded person. Maybe that person would think about some sort of career plan.
In short, Beckles is strict. Her high expectations could elicit self-doubt from the most capable of fullygrown people, so it's perhaps just as well that her target is school children. As the face of a newBBC series beginning tonight, Don't Mess With Miss Beckles, she applies her oldstyle disciplinarian approach to a class of under- achieving state school kids. Uniforms, daily homework and rules are in; fashion, freedom and MSN Messenger on a school night, are out. "I don't get with that kind of liberalism, " she says.See the full content of this document
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Good Morning, Miss Motivator How Do You Deal with Unruly, Disruptive Pupils? One Strict Woman has the Answer - No More Fashion, Freedom or Tv . . . And No Messing with Miss Beckles
Beckles, 43, may be stylish, but her views are not fashionable. In British society, we like our young people to express themselves. Most children have freedom to choose what they wear, how they behave and how much time and thought they really, truly devote to school work. It's a sign that we respect them as individuals, the theory goes, b...
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