I Try to Play a Game in 5th Period.
Well, this hasn't been the best day of my teaching career.
It started out poor and got poorer. First off, I needed about 45 minutes to get things started in the morning before my first period class. However, when I got here at 7:30 a.m., I found out there was a staff meeting. Well, I made the staff meeting, but I had no time to get things ready this morning.
Then, I found out that the sub yesterday had the kids turn off all of the computers in the lab at the end of the day, which means that I had to restart them today. This process takes about 90 seconds for each computer. This chews up more of my life.
Then, I realize that the stuff that I had prepared at home last night for use today was still at home. Argh!
I threw in a quick video for the kids to watch while I booted the computers up. It was about the birth of the personal computer industry, Microsoft, Intel, Apple, etc. Pretty interesting, I thought. Then the kids worked on some problems from the book for the remainder of the period.
In 5th Period, I need to have a perfect lesson plan together to teach the kids Arcs, which are pretty difficult in AutoCAD, at least it is if you don't have any motivation to learn, whatsoever, like a number of the kids in that class.
As a fun filler activity, I thought I would play a game. Jill showed me the secret "Pictionary" game hidden in the back of the cabinet. She said it was perfect for filling time. We play just like regular Pictionary, except the drawers have to use AutoCAD to complete their drawings instead of pencil and paper. Each person on the team draws, using the overhead computer, the rest of the team tries to guess what they are drawing.
After the first round or so, it became obvious that the game was going too slowly and I would never get everyone involved in the drawing part, so I changed the rules a little. The new way had each team drawing on their own computer, first team to guess a word based on their team drawing won the point. It was fun in its own way and some people enjoyed it.
What surprised me was the way some of the kids acted regarding activity. Some kids tried cheating, others accused me of cheating if another team guessed before they did. Others said that if another team got the word before they did, the other team was cheating. After one close call in guessing of words, members of one team starting throwing their chairs across the floor. Another two girls tried to go to their computer and start looking up stuff instead of playing. Another girl laid down on the floor and would only participate when I told her to join in or head down to the office to lay down.
Why?
Why is this such a trial with this class?
Argh!
It started out poor and got poorer. First off, I needed about 45 minutes to get things started in the morning before my first period class. However, when I got here at 7:30 a.m., I found out there was a staff meeting. Well, I made the staff meeting, but I had no time to get things ready this morning.
Then, I found out that the sub yesterday had the kids turn off all of the computers in the lab at the end of the day, which means that I had to restart them today. This process takes about 90 seconds for each computer. This chews up more of my life.
Then, I realize that the stuff that I had prepared at home last night for use today was still at home. Argh!
I threw in a quick video for the kids to watch while I booted the computers up. It was about the birth of the personal computer industry, Microsoft, Intel, Apple, etc. Pretty interesting, I thought. Then the kids worked on some problems from the book for the remainder of the period.
In 5th Period, I need to have a perfect lesson plan together to teach the kids Arcs, which are pretty difficult in AutoCAD, at least it is if you don't have any motivation to learn, whatsoever, like a number of the kids in that class.As a fun filler activity, I thought I would play a game. Jill showed me the secret "Pictionary" game hidden in the back of the cabinet. She said it was perfect for filling time. We play just like regular Pictionary, except the drawers have to use AutoCAD to complete their drawings instead of pencil and paper. Each person on the team draws, using the overhead computer, the rest of the team tries to guess what they are drawing.
After the first round or so, it became obvious that the game was going too slowly and I would never get everyone involved in the drawing part, so I changed the rules a little. The new way had each team drawing on their own computer, first team to guess a word based on their team drawing won the point. It was fun in its own way and some people enjoyed it.
What surprised me was the way some of the kids acted regarding activity. Some kids tried cheating, others accused me of cheating if another team guessed before they did. Others said that if another team got the word before they did, the other team was cheating. After one close call in guessing of words, members of one team starting throwing their chairs across the floor. Another two girls tried to go to their computer and start looking up stuff instead of playing. Another girl laid down on the floor and would only participate when I told her to join in or head down to the office to lay down.
Why?
Why is this such a trial with this class?
Argh!
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