Why Tough Teachers Get Good Results

For class we had to read the article "Why Tough Teachers Get Good Results". This article talks about a teacher, Jerry Kupchynsky, who would be fired today for teaching the way he used to. But it says the students loved him. It says that being strict and mean are two different things. Statistics show that a little constructive criticism only helps children. It also says this is why other country's test scores are higher than us, because we are too easy on the kids. Another thing it mentions is that failure is good sometimes. Sometimes it can help the students realize that failure is supposed to occur in order to succeed and it will make them want to succeed the next go round. 

 This has been by far my favorite article. I have been wanting to know statistics on this type of research for sometime but I never got around to looking them up.  I loved this because I had a coach in high school that I was terrified of but I loved going to practice for some reason. He yelled at us, drilled us until we couldn't do anymore conditioning, and made us practice until perfection. But that was just it. Perfection. It was there. Everytime we competed for 2 years straight we won first or second place in our competitions and I was one of the best cheerleaders on the team because of that strict coach. I agree with this teaching style. Now I just need to find a way to approach it without being considered mean and disliked.