Kristy #9

Teaching Day #5
We had quite the day teaching today. Multiple reasons it was not the best day teaching...The day before Thanksgiving break...HAHA! yeah right I think that the kids were all already on vacation mentally! but they actually did pretty good regardless.
It was a work day today for the students to work on their scenes. So there was a lot of work to do keeping them on task and helping out different groups.
TIP: if you have a group of 30 teenagers and they aren't listening. Yell out 1-2-3 EYES ON ME! ...works with 4th graders, works with teenagers! haha! (the only thing is the 4th graders know to yell back 1-2 EYES ON YOU!)
sad moment of the day: there is a young women in our class that is part of a special ed program and she has an aid that is always in class with her. She leaves early a lot or doesn't come to class at all. Today her group was working on their scene and she was sitting there saying that she couldn't say the words right. I told her, its okay they are hard words but you can do it! she said, but no, I am special ed. I told her- no you can do it! I was really sad that she uses that status as a crutch. There are a lot of other students with much worse disabilities than she had that can do it. so it think that it is really important to make sure that you know your students situations 1 on 1, so that you can best determine what they really can and cant do, so that they don't over use their excuse of being special ed.