Teacher: Ava, again, please start working on your project.
Ava: What? You didn’t say I couldn’t use this site.
Teacher: I said you should be researching the historical figure that you chose.
Ava: I am researching. Look. [turns tablet so that Ms. Harris can see it]
[Ms. Harris gives Ava a stern look and walks away.]
[ Johanna Staubitz commentary ]
We can see that Ava is continuing to persist in her off-task behavior in this clip. And when Ms. Harris comes over, and that's a nice
job attempting proximity control, she redirects Ava again and it's positively stated, but Ms. Harris' irritation is starting to come
through in her tone and her facial expression and in the way she walks away. And we see Ava's agitation in her tone that she's using
toward Ms. Harris, her wish to have the last word, and sort of arguing or looking for the loopholes in the redirection Ms. Harris gave.
“I am doing the job you told me,” even though clearly they both know Ava is sort of exploiting the broadness of the instruction
to research this historical figure. So she's increasingly bold with the tablet. These are all signs of agitation. And just keep in mind,
that the triggering event was that abrupt transition from an energetic, highly preferred activity that involved her peers to a much less
energetic and a much more independent activity. And so the irritated sounding redirect from Ms. Harris doesn't do anything to ease the
difficulty of that transition. It's kind of separate from it. But what it can do, unfortunately, is really make the problem that needs
to be resolved now more complex because now it's not just the transition that's the issue. There's also a power struggle brewing between
Ava and Ms. Harris.