Mrs. T knows that Daryl looks for power conflicts
Mrs. T knows that Daryl looks for power conflicts; he invites tests of will with her or any other authority figure. When she uses almost any of the desisting moves with him, he gets worse. For instance, he takes a specific verbal desist as a challenge to tap his pencil even louder and see what he can goad Mrs. T into doing, so she has learned to use alerting and enlisting moves with him. If he really gets out of hand, she will move firmly and remove him, but she often avoids the necessity for doing that and does get Daryl to pay attention by challenging him with a question, pre-alerting him, or by using the move of making a student a helper. She uses this last move when she sees him tapping the pencil and says, “So there really were four pyramids for the kings. Daryl, will you advance the PowerPoint to the next frame so I can point to things from the front?”