Move away from Blame

Non-judgmental teaching consciously works toward freeing ourselves from blame. Poor management, on the other hand, breeds blame. Typically when students do well, teachers naturally feel proud of their progress and feel that what have been done on behalf of the students has paid off. However, when students don't do their assignments and when they don't do so well on tests there is a tendency for teachers to blame the students or themselves for real or perceived inadequacies. Far too often teachers hear that internal voice say "I'm not skilled enough to hold the students' attention," "My teaching is not adequate to handle the situation," or "I should have prepared better."
Stephen Brookfield, in his "Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher" (1995), talks about what typically happens to good teachers:
"A tendency of teachers who take their work seriously is to blame themselves if students are not learning. These teachers feel that at some level, they are the cause of the hostility, resentment, or indifference.... Believing themselves to be the cause of these emotions and feelings, they automatically infer that they are also their solution."