Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Lesson gone wild

My first observation was today. I kind of don't know what to say about it. I got a good score, but I felt like the lesson was a disaster. These kids were bouncing off the walls. They were consistently disrespectful, off task, wandering around the room and talking while other students or the teacher is talking. They don't listen to me and it is very frustrating. I wish I could just teach and not have to manage and babysit the kids. When we were conferencing with our facilitator about it afterwards and he said that we had a good lesson and we got high scores but our management was low. He blamed a lot of it on the teacher for not setting up good enough routines. During the lesson I had to take an eraser away from a boy today because I had asked him repeatedly to stop playing with it. Later he came up to me and said "No offense teacher, but I don't like you". Then he gave me a cheesy grin and walked away. I kind of wanted to say "ok good, because I don't like you either :)"

Turns out I still love teaching. It was just a stressful day and I wanted too much for it to be perfect. It's funny because I think that the lesson will be easy to teach but then when I go to teach it, it turns out it's a lot harder than I think. It's kind of sad that people think teaching is easy, I would have to strongly disagree with that.

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