skills vs. performance deficits
While students, primarily interact with obstacles involving a lack of motivation and the inability to understand the topic they are learning. This can make things very hard for students and send them back on work and knowledge. To understand the difference the best to can do is understand your students struggles rather it be a skill or motivational problem, and you can't understand that without talking to them. Talking to students directly can give you a sense of what the student is going through and where to go on from that. Discussions like behavioral issues, going over what's not working for them, and ways to build a trusting relationship should be gone over which can lead you to refraining from things that aren't working and building ways to actively gain students interest but also making it a easier way for students to understand. Students that are going through skill deficits can be overwhelming and lead them to gradually stop trying i...