- ASSUMPTION: It's simple to use school resources

Student 1: Ah? So that classroom stays open at lunch time so students can work there? Since when? I am so behind…I use my mom’s computer but she lives far away and sometimes I can't take the bus.

Student 2: You don’t need the bus. The classroom stays open.

Student 1: I didn’t know

Student 3: Mr. X (a teacher who teaches in the morning and in the afternoon in a class with computers) leaves it opened for us. But one of us needs to stay there because if nobody is there the janitor closes the door after cleaning it.

Student 4: I don't think I'll use it. I'm for work. Bye guys.

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- ASSUMPTION: The practice will teach

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• A left brain student who had had a health problem asks “How could I know?”
  

S1: Why are you crying?

S2: My grades are so low…I didn’t know. I thought I was doing ok. See? I did all this homework and she didn’t give any of it back till today. I thought I was doing great!

S1: It's been three months and you only realize your homework was so bad now?

S2: See…it is all bad. I'm trying so hard. I'm trying so hard. Everybody saw how hard I'm trying since I came back to study…even when I have to go back to hospital I am keeping on time. Why didn’t she tell me? How could I know?

• Student as a product to be inspected at the end of the process

Student 1: The teacher rarely came to classroom, another one took her place. She asked us to fill a book. Neither one corrected our work, except once when the teacher sat with of us for 10 minutes…I asked for more corrections, I explain I wanted help with grammar. She said “don’t worry”. I can't believe she gave me 61! I have 85 to 100 in other courses

Student 2: The teacher opens the door, it is up to the student to learn, remember? She gave you the book, you were supposed to complete it all.

Student 1: I completed it.

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- METHOD: Follow the credited ones

• Students shouldn't go beyond their teacher
  

Student: "... I wanted the text book we use in class but the teacher said we could not take it because if we study at home, he would nothing to teach in class"

• Student's shouldn't go beyond books
  

Student 1: Some student don’t talk too much because they were told they were “not credited” voices

Student 2: Yesterday I heard that...Here, see? I wrote down the teacher's instructions about Essays:
"Plagiarism is...you need to write down your sources. And I do not want your ideas about the subject. You can not use I, ME, YOU because you are not a credible source, you didn’t do many years of research"

Student1: Wow, do you write down every word teachers say?

Student 2: Almost everything, just listening makes me tired

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