Our afternoon class has too many young, immature and very social students. It is hard to keep them busy and working. They are a bit fresh. D said today in a complaining voice, "I should have stayed in school." I said I agreed. She said she didn't have any choice because she was kicked out.
R questioned much of what we did today. He claimed he needed to work on fractions when I had given him a decimal packet. I showed him how he had missed 3 out of 6 decimal problems on his test. He said I did things all different than he had learned it before. I wanted to say, "But you never learned it before!"
A told him that I had a "smart mouth" but I think she said that with a bit of appreciation. She made a gain on her reading level as shown on a post-test today. Suddenly she was willing to try the Social Studies predictor again. A little success goes a long way.
When I have just five or six in that afternoon class, I can keep it going with out too many distractions. Today was a good enough day. My job is to teach these young ones how to work and that work pays off. But it is hard not to get irritated at attitudes and lack of skills. How can they have gotten this far and not know that you start to measure something with the end of the ruler!
No comments:
Post a Comment