Some Good, Some Bad...
On Tuesday, the Sophmore class spent all day attending the "Party Program." This is a highway safety/drunk driving awareness class that the kids go through. Apparently, they get to see lots of pictures of crashed cars and hurt bodies and stuff like that. OK. I suppose. What it meant was that most of my classes were missing 1/3 to 2/3s of their students. I threw out most of my lesson planning and just did reviews.
And some games.
The fifth period class that I have been struggling with actually came through and did reasonably well on my surprise quiz Monday. A few of them are starting to "get it." I spent time with one young lady, who has consistently closed her eyes, shook her head and said, "I don't get it, I don't get it!" I walked her through the first problem on the test (because I am a nice guy) . Finally, something clicked in her head and she said, "Oh! I get it! That's easy!"
"Yeah, you're right. It is easy. It's been easy this whole time!" She got a perfect score on the quiz.
The problem is that the part of the class that I struggle with is taking ALL of my time. The other 7 kids, who are now almost officially a Tech II class, are sort of doing an Independent Study, and teaching themselves AutoCAD. If I spend even five minutes with them in class, the other side of the room goes straight to hell. I really need to figure something out with this. The Tech II people need some of my attention, too.
Argh.
Anyway, about Tech II, it sounds like we are good to go and we will start working on our electric car (or possibly solar powered car, depending upon which direction we decide to go) around Christmas Time. I'm excited about the prospects, but not so excited about the extra work. Jill, the teacher that oversaw the program last year, said that for the most part, all she did was supervise, the kids did all of the work. That would be good.
And some games.
The fifth period class that I have been struggling with actually came through and did reasonably well on my surprise quiz Monday. A few of them are starting to "get it." I spent time with one young lady, who has consistently closed her eyes, shook her head and said, "I don't get it, I don't get it!" I walked her through the first problem on the test (because I am a nice guy) . Finally, something clicked in her head and she said, "Oh! I get it! That's easy!"
"Yeah, you're right. It is easy. It's been easy this whole time!" She got a perfect score on the quiz.
The problem is that the part of the class that I struggle with is taking ALL of my time. The other 7 kids, who are now almost officially a Tech II class, are sort of doing an Independent Study, and teaching themselves AutoCAD. If I spend even five minutes with them in class, the other side of the room goes straight to hell. I really need to figure something out with this. The Tech II people need some of my attention, too.
Argh.
Anyway, about Tech II, it sounds like we are good to go and we will start working on our electric car (or possibly solar powered car, depending upon which direction we decide to go) around Christmas Time. I'm excited about the prospects, but not so excited about the extra work. Jill, the teacher that oversaw the program last year, said that for the most part, all she did was supervise, the kids did all of the work. That would be good.
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