ABSTRACT

Have you ever found yourself waiting for an elevator and pushing the button more than once? Did you really think it would come faster if you pushed the button repeatedly? Did it? Of course not. (Imagine, if that really did work, the poor people inside the elevator zooming at breakneck speed because of some impatient person pushing the button repeatedly!) Well, if the elevator had not come, what would you have done? You would have taken the stairs, right? Or, at the very least, you would have sought another elevator. And that’s exactly what students do in the classroom. Students push our buttons. First, they push once. The most effective teachers, of course, do not react. So the students push again, sometimes harder and faster. You see, they’re trying desperately to make the teacher react—not because they’re bad, but because they’re kids!