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thirteenemeraldcats · 7 months

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in one of your tags you mentioned-

'one of the things that gets chatted about A LOT in teaching is meeting students at their point of need- which ted does NOT do with jamie'

I would love to hear more of your thoughts on this! Both in terms of what that concept entails, and also what you think Jamie's point of need was at the time versus what Ted saw the situation needing

(You have excellent tags btw, don't know if anyone's mentioned that)

I HAVE MANY THOUGHTS ON THIS THAT I LOVE THAT YOU'D LOVE TO HEAR!

(I have more thoughts than I anticipated, this got errr, long. Whoops)

(potentially necessary/relevant background here is I am a high school teacher 👋)

Okie dokie, so, one of the principles of best practice in teaching is the idea I tag-rambled above; meet both the individual students and collective class at their point of need. Essentially this means practising differentiation in teaching and adjusting how content/ideas are communicated to students based on who they are as learners and people. Particularly if a student is performing outside the 'average' (either exceeding or still developing), this means adjusting to their needs by (among other things) curating differentiated resources and adapting delivery style. Differentiation is especially important in an all-abilities classroom, unfortunately public education is perpetually underfunded and overcrowded so everyone's just out here doing their best (the decent people of the world at least). BUT! WHILE I'M ON IT! SPEAKING OF THE THINGS I'VE TAG RAMBLED, the education system's (global) inability to adequately differentiate for students of different-abilities, particularly students with ADHD, ASD and Dyslexia, is perhaps the greatest failing of the whole dang thing and if anyone who ever stumbles across this is neuro-divergent and feels like they were a bad student or couldn't 'keep up' in mainstream education- THAT WAS NOT YOUR FAULT. You don't have to break yourself to 'fit', school is MEANT to bend for you. (Particularly when you're young, ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU'RE YOUNG)

ANYWAY, the fictional football of it all!

We don't see a lot of Ted actually coaching in this show (stick with me). The scenes in which he 'coaches' are typically him and various other coaching staff standing on the sidelines while the team skirmishes or occasionally runs drills, so me saying Ted doesn't differentiate is more based around his patented Ted-talks. NOW, Ted PROBABLY knows the team fairly well as individuals, particularly in season 2 and 3, purely by having spent quite a lot of time with them, despite this the only times we really see him 'adjust' his style with the team are ironically season 1 (examples include conferencing Jamie and Roy in 1x04 For The Children, and allowing/facilitating Nate's speech in 1x07 Make Rebecca Great Again). The moment that always sticks out to me as most significant is when he goes and seeks out Keeley's advice on how to get through to Jamie in 1x02 Biscuits.

Side note: I will be forever obsessed with Keeley jumping straight from 'blowjobs' to one of the four operant conditioning techniques (positive reinforcement) when asked about this. That woman is a very fascinating puzzle of a person.

Ted recognises that his typical perpetual-optimism-style isn't cracking the Jamie-Tartt-nut and seeks out a different opinion. This kind of collaboration and whole-system approach is key in teaching too, either by tapping the knowledge-well of a student's broader school context or the difficult-to-crack student's parents.

SO, having gotten the Jamie-Tartt-cheat-code from Keeley he DOES meet Jamie at his point of need, speaks clearly to him and communicates what he needs from him. AND IT WORKS! Temporarily! During the conversation between the two in Ted's office we see Jamie engage, he even practises self-reflection! Granted it's about his left foot cross, but still! The nut is cracked.

Jamie even maintains the perspective Ted has taught him for about two seconds while talking to Trent, until Jamie's other (definitely not positively-reinforced) behaviours rear up and he reverts to what James others have taught him.

On the other hand.

Multiple times throughout the show we see Jamie be visibly or verbally confused by Ted's communication style. Ted often talks in meandering metaphors that Jamie doesn't seem to be able to follow. We verbally hear him state 'Why doesn't he just say that then, do you know what I mean?' in 2x07 Headspace after Beard has to translate Ted's 'peas and carrots/beefchunks' analogy to 'starters and reserves'. Then there's the infamous 'What the fuck are Denver Broncos?' from 3x09 La Locker Room Aux Folles. The only notable time we really see Jamie 'get' one of these metaphors is the sewer-system-tunnels from 3x01 Smells Like Mean Spirit.

(His understanding of that specific metaphor, along with his use of the magnets to demonstrate total football in 3x07 The Strings That Bind, and a Watsonian-perspective of his near perfect mimicry of movements he saw two years ago when executing the decoy play in 3x12 So Long, Farewell, are actually all examples I use to head-canon Jamie as a primarily visual/physical based learner. For whatever that's worth!)

NOW! Ted's willingness to seek and apply alternate techniques in season 1 when he should know the team as both individuals and a collective the least, coupled with his inability or unwillingness to practise differentiation in later seasons when he DOES KNOW THEM is why I don't think Ted is meeting the team, specifically Jamie at their/his point of need. Any person's ability to differentiate behaviour to meet the needs/requirements/comforts of the individual or group they're talking to is increased the more they know them. (We all do this in life, consciously or subconsciously we typically try and 'match the vibe' of whoever we're communicating with [doubly so for people who're engaging in masking.])

Ted should and does learn more about Jamie as a person and his background as the show progresses. He listens to Jamie vocalise both his internal justifications for his actions and his reflections of those justifications/actions in 1x06 Two Aces, he sees him being explicitly physically abused in 1x10 The Hope That Kills You, he listens to him describe a spiralling mindset in 2x02 Lavender, he sees him being explicitly verbally abused in 2x08 Man City.

Of course, one of the fascinating things about Jamie is how much he learns and grows over the course of the show, and there are instances in which I don't think Ted is recognising that (primarily his dismissal of Jamie in 3x03 4-5-1 and not utilising Jamie's knowledge of total football as a resource from the beginning in 3x07 The Strings That Bind).

Ted understands and has previously applied Jamie responding well to positive reinforcement, yet at multiple times in the series doesn't respond in a way that reflects his perspective being informed by that knowledge. Essentially not practising the appropriate level of care/caution when interacting with/around Jamie.

There's not intervening on Jamie's behalf in 2x03 Do the Right-est Thing or 2x06 The Signal when the team and Roy are targeting or ignoring him respectively. The assumed absence of any follow up to the events of 2x08 Man City, the Zava of it all in season 3, and of course the eternal 'forgiveness' kicker from 3x11 Mom City.

POINT BEING. And to actually answer your inquiry lol, I think Jamie is someone who needs clear communication, ideally bracketed in positive reinforcement based operant conditioning as a learning technique (reward behaviour you want reinforced by offering something desirable [praise in Jamie's case]) and visual/physical aid/references for concepts; as a LEARNER.

AS A PERSON, there's more. Ted can readily infer from all he's heard and seen that Jamie's a victim of child abuse. The long term damage to the adult psyche that abuse during formative years has is astronomical, it literally changes the foundational structures of a person's brain. And yet, again, we never see Ted even acknowledge this. Jamie in 3x11 Mom City, incidentally compares his father to Freddy Krueger, Ted elaborates on the comparison, then Jamie reiterates that Freddy Krueger's 'fucking terrifying'. Ted doesn't reassure Jamie (the requirement of his point of need), he gives him a Ted-talk (and in doing so doesn't differentiate his perspective/communication technique).

As far as what Ted thought the situation needed... search me I've got no idea. I do think Ted projects onto Jamie a hell of a lot. That he gets Jamie's personhood and life experiences all tangled up in the emotions he has about his father's death and his consequent perceived abandonment, his insecurities about his own ability to parent Henry and even in his own inability to clearly communicate with his mother. I do think Ted relies on his own forced optimism to 'get by'. Like how a great white shark dies if it stops swimming, if Ted stops being 'Ted', if he stops swimming, his past and his fears and his feelings will catch up to him and swallow him whole. (For what it's worth, I do think Ted is more unwell than even the show explicitly tells us, much like Jamie experiencing ongoing trauma due to childhood abuse, the effects both short-term and long-term as well as potential causalities of having a parent die by suicide are... grim.)

(Essentially the entire fandom has talked about basically all of this at one point or another, I'm just using slightly different language.)

NOW! These characters are fictional (obviously) and I am judging them based on real-people conventions and the best-principles of my own profession, as well as my background in theoretical psychology (which I think I forgot to mention and is also probably [??] relevant). My Doylist-perspective of Ted and his coaching/communication style is ...kinder, but if I get too sucked into the narrative it results in either brief tag-rambles or... whatever this thing I've just typed is. I think it's been too long since I've written academically, my thoughts have gone circular 🫠

ANYWAY! I hope this made something-approaching sense! Thank you again for asking to hear my thoughts! Always happy to word vomit!

ALSO, thank you for saying my tags are excellent (you are the first and currently only to say so!) - The tags are where I send my thoughts to die (in a 'I must banish them to move on' kind of way rather than a 'I'm strangling them' kind of way) so you saying they're excellent is even MORE flattering than you realise! Makes my brain want to purr 💚🤣

#what do i even begin to tag this slab of text as YEESH #ted lasso #jamie tartt #theodore lasso #ask box is always open #come hit me up for teaching rambles or psych rambles or fandom rambles or general rambles ANYTIME #readwing #jamiesfootball #oh shit trigger warnings #suicide #child abuse #if this indeed makes no sense i would like to blame it on the fact i've written it while drinking wine through a straw #(it's my friday night okay)#i'll post this in the morning when i've had the chance to read it while NOT drinking wine through a straw #hola- it is now morning and i'm only slightly hungover! win!

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bvselincs · 19 days

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[ … ] ❀ you’re not from around here , are you? i figured because you totally just missed { MIKEL BALLART } walking by. don’t tell me you don’t know who { HE/HIM } is/are ? they kind of look like { JACOB ELORDI } and i could be wrong but i think that they might be { 27 } years old right now. they’ve been living in palmview for the last { YEAR }. and i don’t know if anyone has ever told them this before but they kind of remind me of { JAMIE TARTT } from { TED LASSO }. if you stick around the town long enough you might catch them in action working at { - } as a { TENNIS PLAYER }. you see this town isn’t really that big of a place, some folks like to call them the { REDEEMED BAD BOY } of palmview! they took a liking to the name too after a while, go figure. oh crap, they must have heard me yapping. they’re coming this way. i got to warn you though, rumor has it they can pretty { SELF-CENTERED } at times. i wouldn’t take it too seriously though, from the times i’ve spoken to them they seemed pretty { CHARISMATIC } to me. we see each other all the time since they live in that { 6A } apartment beside me over in { CORAL COVE }. i better leave you to it. it was nice meeting you!

⸺ ONE , LINKS .

biography

connections

plot ideas

playlist

musings

visage

⸺ TWO , STATS .

✦ full name. mikel river ballart ✦ age. twenty-seven ✦ date of birth. august 15, 1997 ✦ place of birth. melbourne, australia ✦ gender. cis-male ✦ pronouns. he/him ✦ sexual orientation. bisexual ✦ occupation. tennis player ✦ faceclaim. jacob elordi ✦ zodiac. leo sun, capricon moon and rising.

⸺ THREE , INFORMATION .

trigger warning: domestic abuse, addiction, alcoholism, bullying

mikel was born in melbourne, australia, the youngest of three. his mother fought to keep the family afloat, scrimping and saving while his father let the unemployment benefits slip through his fingers.

as mikel came of age, the pattern of his father’s self-destruction became all too clear. the police visits were a frequent occurrence, each one followed by his father's promises of reform. but those promises were as fleeting as the wind, and soon, everything would return to the same broken state.

despite this turmoil, mikel yearned for his father's approval, believing that making him happy could alleviate the family’s distress. their mutual love for tennis provided a fleeting escape, with cherished afternoons spent at the local court. in these moments, his father’s aspirations weighed heavily, nurturing the belief that mikel’s rise as a professional player could be their salvation from the clutches of poverty.

mikel’s love for tennis became his refuge in school, where he struggled with undiagnosed adhd and dyslexia, and faced harsh bullying for his academic difficulties and reserved nature. his fortunes changed unexpectedly when a sports agent, noticing his talent at a local tournament, offered him a scholarship to a prestigious academy in brisbane.

mikel’s life changed fast at the academy. he went from an outcast to a rising star, with everyone wanting his friendship. his tennis skills soared, and so did his ego. he was just eleven, but his pride was even bigger. yet, the cheers at the academy were a stark contrast to the silence at home, where bruises told stories he didn’t dare speak of. things had gotten worse since they left melbourne, and as mikel got older, he grew more afraid of his father. unable to challenge his father about the mistreatment of his mother and siblings.

in 2009, sitting in a hospital waiting for her son’s broken arm to be set, mila made up her mind to leave her abusive husband. mikel had been hurt in a fit of rage after losing a set. mila packed their bags and bought tickets to her parents' hometown in spain. at first, mikel thought it was a short stay, but as his arm healed and no talk of going back came up, he grew angry and silent. for months, he didn’t speak to his mother. finally, mila enrolled him in a local school and academy, trying to help him settle and find some peace.

the academy he attended was small and lacked the resources to nurture his talent. it wasn’t long before one of his coaches, seeing his potential, arranged a scholarship for him to attend a prestigious academy in spain. at just thirteen, mikel left home once more, this time moving to alicante on his own. there, he found himself among other young tennis hopefuls, training hard and competing on the junior circuit.

his junior career was fairly successful; he reached a junior grand slam final and climbed to a ranking of fifth in the world. but it was when he stepped onto the professional tour at sixteen that his talent truly began to shine.

mikel’s journey was shaped by a partnership with a coach who became a father figure to him, guiding him to his first professional title. his breakthrough year was filled with remarkable triumphs, including his first grand slam victory and a swift rise in the rankings. yet, off the court, he battled his own demons. the specter of his estranged father still loomed over him, affecting his personal life and gnawing at his mental well-being.

mikel’s talent was undeniable, yet his reputation both on and off the court told a different story. he was the rebel, the bad boy of tennis, known for shouting at umpires and refusing to shake hands with his opponent after a loss. his tumultuous relationship with the press always grabbed the headlines, while his striking looks brought him fans and sponsors. he was the kind of player people loved to hate, his name always on their lips.

though mikel had found success, his career was thrown off course by a serious injury that led to a dependency on painkillers, which resulted in a suspension from the sport. his battle with addiction and the relentless pressure to maintain his public image and keep his sponsorships forced him into rehab. he released a statement to the press, explaining he’d miss the rest of the season due to a lingering foot injury. he spent two months at a rehab center in florida before moving to palmview grove for the remainder of his suspension.

it has been four months since the suspension was lifted, yet he still grapples with the fear of slipping back into his old habits. this fear has kept him from returning to the court, even as his coach insists he is ready. mikel’s sights are set on being prepared for the next season in january.

over the past year, mikel has learned that being a star isn’t as satisfying as he’d once thought. fame and fortune looked good from the outside, but underneath, he struggled with many demons. for the past year, he’s been working on those personal battles, focusing less on being a great player and more on becoming a better person.

⸺ FOUR , PERSONALITY

at his core, he's a people pleaser, shy, and compliant, reminiscent of his childhood self.

he struggles with expressing his true emotions and uses a fake confident persona to hide his insecurities.

he's perceived as egotistical and rude, but few realize his vulnerability and fear of being broken.

mikel craves attention and sometimes struggles with sharing the spotlight.

in relationships, he commits sincerely but moves on quickly if it ends.

eager to learn and strives to be the best, even if it doesn't always succeed.

currently, he is trying to acknowledge his past mistakes, make amends, and improve himself as a person.

⸺ FIVE , HEADCANONS

he goes to therapy twice a week, although he mostly treats it as a interview and struggles to really talk about his issues.

has a four-year-old mix golden retriever/labrador named sadie

claims his favourite book is "to kill a mockingbird" because he sort of watched the film at school

hates when people call him mike

he took on his mother's surname when he became a pro player and legally changed it when he was 18. his last name surname was bancroft

he’s not very into fashion, he likes comfort so something he likes about being an athlete is that he gets to dress comfortably most of the time.

often wakes up before 7 am, but since he hasn't been an active player he's been trying to sleep past 8 am and stay up longer.

while he's not the best cook in the world, he can cook different types of pasta and sauces. mostly, because it's what he normally ate when he was training and playing.

he can speak fluent Spanish. his mother was born in australia but her parents come from the basque country. he can speak some basque but not a lot.

even if he has double citizenship (spanish and australian), he represents australia.

if he had gone to university (which he wouldn't lol) he would have studied something related to cinema. he loves movies and it's pretty much the only form of entertainment that can have his attention.

for the previous reason, he rarely watches tv shows because his attention span is too short and binging a tv show makes him feel uneasy.

a year ago, he was offered to participate in the latest love island australia but he turned it down when he learned he would have to share bedroom with other people.

it might come as a surprise but he's only been drunk twice in his life.

while he can be a dickhead to most people, he’s usually one of those players that try to give autographs to every fan who asks for one.

his best ranking has been #1 in the world which he achieved when he was 21. his first grand slam was the us open at 20. in total he has 6 grand slams and 35 titles.

his proudest moments in his career was when he won the australian open at 24 and again at 26.

he's sponsored by: adidas, head, tag heuer, calvin klein, evian, porsche, BBVA, hugo boss.

⸺ SIX , WANTED CONNECTIONS

tba

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ao3feed-tedlasso · 1 year

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BFF That Stands For Us

by TheGreenestBean

They say it takes more than 200 hours before you can consider someone a close friend, Colin and Isaac are outliers.

This is the evolution of Isaac and Colin's friendship over the years, because through thick and thin they've got each others backs and nothing's going to change that.

(Part of the Strong And Capable Man universe but can be read as a stand alone)

Words: 17336, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Series: Part 8 of I am a strong and capable man

Fandoms: Ted Lasso (TV)

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: Gen

Characters: Colin Hughes, Isaac McAdoo, Moe Bumbercatch, Jamie Tartt, Ted Lasso, The Hughes family

Relationships: Colin Hughes & Isaac McAdoo

Additional Tags: Fluff, Developing Friendships, Hurt/Comfort, Colin Hughes & Isaac McAdoo Friendship, Colin Has EDS | Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, Injury, Can be read as Colin/Isaac for the most part, Minor Colin Hughes/Michael, Colin has self-esteem issues, Isaac had dyslexia, Autistic Colin Hughes, Implied/Referenced Drug Use

source https://archiveofourown.org/works/48293158

#Ted Lasso #Ted Lasso Fic #ao3feed

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samwpmarleau · 2 years

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i haven't had a lot of interest in ted lasso but that schmidt/cece comparison got me. do you think it's accurate? why do you love jamie tartt and why should he and keeley be together?

I love Jamie for a lot of reasons! They’re under the cut because this got long.

(Re: The Schmidt/Cece comparison, full disclosure, I think I’ve watched like one episode of New Girl in my life — you can thank @stonesandswords for introducing me to those two — but from what I understand, they end up together so I’m on board! The scenes I’ve pulled up of them on YouTube have also by and large had Jamie/Keeley vibes, which has been fun to watch. So while I can’t say whether it’s beat-for-beat accurate or not because a) I haven’t seen the show and b) Ted Lasso isn’t done yet, meaning at this point it’s more of an it’s-always-sunny-meme type of thing, what I have seen has provided some nice parallels. The answer to your last question is at the end of this post.)

Mainly I love Jamie because of his depth. On the surface, and he’s presented as such in the beginning, he’s just a dumb jock, but he isn’t that at all.

He’s not dumb, for one — he has a few malapropisms, but he knows what he means to say, it’s just the word(s) itself that he mixes up sometimes. Which can largely be attributed, I think, to the fact that he grew up poor and thus his education probably wasn’t up to par; he was scouted into football very young and so academics probably weren’t a focus in his teens either; and if you, like me, subscribe to the theory that he has dyslexia, that’s a big part of it as well.

He’s not just a jock, either. He’s one of the most emotionally intelligent characters in the series, for better or worse he says what’s on his mind, is very willing to be corrected, and readily takes advice both on a personal level and professional. He eats Keeley out with enthusiasm, too, what’s not to love?

And, of course, there’s the veneer he puts on to hide why he is the way he is. We think he’s a dick simply to be a dick in the beginning, but find out later that no, there’s a reason for that. More importantly, however, he breaks that cycle. As early as episode two we see that he wants to be more, which is compounded by the time episode six comes around, then obviously all of season two.

Despite growing up being physically and emotionally abused, he thrives on physical contact and genuine emotional connection. Despite having the “Be A Real Man” bullshit drilled into him, he seeks input from others (Keeley especially, though not exclusively) and craves validation. The little things, too: Whereas, it’s heavily indicated, James Tartt is a violent alcoholic, Jamie drinks as little as he can get away with; despite Jamie’s childhood (or at least adolescence) being stolen from him, he goes out of his way to make the kids he interacts with have a positive experience and look up to him; despite growing up with conflict, he doesn’t like it and removes himself from situations rather than escalates or continues them (with the exception of riling up Roy).

Obviously he’s not perfect. When we meet him, he’s mean and a bully and allergic to vulnerability that lasts more than two seconds. But he’s trying, and he’s made the most growth of anyone on the show, most of it all by himself. Yes, he got nudges in the right directions — e.g., Ted telling him to make the extra pass, Keeley telling him to talk to Ted, etc. — but at the end of the day, he was the one who made those decisions. He took stock of his life, said, “I don’t want to be this person anymore,” and changed his behavior. Especially for someone who had so much messed-up shit instilled in him, that’s huge! I love that he had the self-reflection to realize all of that, and that he took the steps to change it.

I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention Phil’s part in all of this, as well. Jamie as a character is fascinating and I adore him, but I don’t think I’d be as enthralled if it weren’t for Phil’s acting choices. Even more than the main aspects of how he plays him are the subtle aspects. The flinches at sudden movement, the shutting down when male authority figures are yelling in his face, the fidgeting, the line deliveries, the way he actually made that free kick in 2x06 (okay, not that’s not an acting choice, but it’s still amazing), the way you only need to watch a single interview of the guy to see how good of an actor he is because he’s nothing like Jamie (this is one of my favorites for how insightful it is). He’s also very, very pretty.

I could go on for hours, but I hope that clears things up well enough 😄

AS FOR HIM AND KEELEY, I wrote about a lot of my thoughts on them here so I’ll try not to rehash all of that.

Were they good for each other long-term when the series began? No. I don’t think anyone has ever argued that they were. As mentioned above, Jamie had a tendency to backpedal as soon as he let down his guard even a little (though he let it down far more for Keeley than anyone else), and Keeley underestimated herself and didn’t take herself seriously. But we see how fond of each other they were and are, how when it’s just them they’re soft and silly together, how they value one another, and how they don’t diminish or patronize each other.

Most relevant for going forward is that they’ve both grown. Contrary to what much of the fandom would have you believe when it comes to talking about them in a shipping sense (which, sidebar: It’s so bizarre to me how people will acknowledge that growth for the individual characters, yet pretend it doesn’t exist when it comes to a possible relationship rekinding), neither of them — Jamie especially — are the same people they were at the start of the series.

Jamie has matured, readily shares what he’s feeling, lowers his walls, and lets people help him. Keeley has high self-esteem, gumption, ambition, and a lack of superficiality. They’re at similar stages in life, both of them having long, successful careers ahead of them, both of them relishing the excitement and possibility of it all, neither of them looking to settle down.

All of that paired with the intangible connection that brought and kept them together in the first place, their familiarity with one another, and the fact that they would know precisely what to avoid as a couple this time around, I think that gives them a very solid foundation on which to build a proper relationship. And on a more thematic level, there is something very satisfying, I think, about how it took them breaking up to become the people they needed to be to come back together again.

#if j/k isn't your thing then just skip the end #most of this is only about jamie #but i'll tag anyway for people who may have it blacklisted #jamie tartt #keeley jones #jamie x keeley #tl

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