Chapter # 5 Teaching to the Individual, Working with the Group

This chapter broke down the class dynamic into different roles. These roles were the eye-roller, the wallflower, the hand-waver,the dreamer, the con artist, the goof-off, and the workhorse. Each class is supposedly made up of these roles.

I think this break down is far to general and it assumes that students are 1 dimensional stock characters, much like the ones found in commedia del arte. Students are far more complex than that, and as I have been working in the field I have been confronted with countless examples of that. The most striking example is a student that doesn't do any work at all. He doesn't goof around, he just sits quietly in the class, pays attention, but doesn't take tests or do class work. This student could fit aspects of multiple roles, but his case gets stranger still. After receiving an ISS he did all of his assigned work, and aced it. Now this student shows aspects of all the roles. That is just one example on why I think that this break down was too generalized.