Another description of a non-DAP classroom is for teachers that are not listening to the needs of their students. If a teacher is running a circle time, but the children are getting restless and she continues her lessons, then she is not listening to the needs of the students. We as teachers need to understand that there will be times that our schedules and our planned lessons will need to be adjusted. If a teacher continues a circle time and it is now over 20 minutes and she has students that are clearly not showing an interest anymore then she needs to recognize that something needs to be adjusted. It is OK to stop something that doesn’t seem to be working and maybe at a later time in the day it can be continued. It is important to listen
