You think you know your master teacher until you get hit with this.
"Conscientiously checks for understanding. In fact, may sometimes overestimate obligation to do so." Rating 2/3
What the hell? There is this assumption at this damn school that the students know everything and if they don't, well, that's just too bad. And this was from the master teacher who I like!!
This is not Oxford or Stanford. It's a public high school with students who still write "I went their" and "alot" and make the same mistakes that other students make. What a bunch of ridiculousness, all I did was an exit ticket!
In my other class, we started Night. I debated whether I should talk about my family's experience about the genocide. I didn't tell them that my grandmother drank horse urine to stay alive because she saw other people getting sick from drinking the well water, but I did tell them that all of my grandparents families were murdered before their very eyes. I also told them that some of the material we will be reading is very sad, and that we will do other activities to try to lighten it up. I am going to bring them candy on Thursday and we'll watch scenes from Life is Beautiful in a couple weeks. I really want to stay away from giving vocabulary on Dachau and Auschwitz, and try to get the students to have a personal reaction to the book. On the other hand, they need to know the terms so that they can understand the full context and historical implications of the book.
Today in C&I I was thinking we only have about five class meetings left. This freaks me out. I feel like I have learned everything and nothing simultaneously. I really like my friends in the program, and I hope that we will still have some kind of community after we are done.
I am a bit stressed out really. My best friend told me to start having one drink a night and that it's good for your heart, etc. My alchohol tolerance is very low and I have tons of work to do, so I can't. However, I am beginning to think that it would be good for me to take up such a habit. At least I wouldn't be smoking. My oldest daughter is sad when I come home late, and my younger one just said mam for the first time. I am not sure if she was referring to cheerios or me.
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Do you look like a Cheerio? I know we met once, but I don't remember you floating away from our interaction, on a wave of milk.
I just started checking for understanding because of the assessment we had to do. It seems a really good idea. From everything I've heard about your site - it sounds problematic. I mean, teachers sound stiff. I have a student coming to my program from there and he says, "no one discusses anything - and if you try, the other kids look at you with disdain."
S8G
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