Adding: I made a projection in the above, and it may very well be inaccurate: I don’t have the information, don’t know of your assertiveness skills outside the classroom, in your personal life. Assertiveness in the classroom requires additional skills than those required in personal life. Those can be learned and improved through practice. From my personal experience, I was not able to practicve assertiveness in the classroom because I was seriously lacking assertiveness skills in my personal life. Without the latter, no way was I able to achieve the former. I simply felt uncomfortable asserting myself, I didn’t feel confident and worthy enough to … tell anyone what to do. Without that confidence, without the core belief that I was of value adn worth to exert reasonable control over others- I was doomed in the classroom. So for me things did NOT imporove.

anita