I am wondering if I learned to keep my mouth shut.
Maybe's it temporary. I'm afraid my good sense will wear off.
I wrote in the last post my reasons for leaving my little pond and big fish title, for the current very big one. I think I am officially a minnow.
No one asks me anything.
I spend my days teaching,
Just teaching.
I have three Resource Rooms, Up to eight students, in four different grades. They appear in the back of a half size classroom with a large south facing window which currently would be more effectively used for growing tomatoes, And I try to do something worthwhile while they're there..
Currently we have been reading an article Is Algebra Necessary? I hoped to spark some lively debate but mostly we just crowd around a table and I try hard to get anyone to say anything. Yesterday one group had a lively discussion about Sponge Bob Square Pants, but it died when I tried to steer the conversation back to the article.
I'm not sure if its the oppressive heat, the incredibly crowded quarters or we're still in the process of sizing each other up.
My two other assigned periods are with a self contained special education math classes. (See and here I thought in the 21st Century no one isolates learning disabled kids into a separate program all day long- shows you what I know)
Bailey told me three times today she hated this class. The third time I gave her a calculator walked her through the first problem and she managed to do the second one (which was something like find the absolute value of x-(-6) when x=4). in the remaining fifteen minutes of the period.She didn't mentioning hating the class again,
Didn't do much work.
But didn't call me over to tell me she hated me and the class.
Kandi only went to the bathroom for twenty minutes, (he's been averaging 30) and Lenny told me he might be able to learn enough math to pass a regents.
So I can still teach isolated self contained classes. (Please, don't read this--- gods of Chaos, I know my mother would have been sure that just typing that sentence would ensure a chair flying through a window tomorrow, but I am bucking a long tradition of superstition and writing it anyway)
My last obligation of the day:
Attending a small learning community session.
Today's discussion, the uselessness of small learning community sessions.
My contribution.
Nothing.
I didn't say watching the video clip about good teaching practices on Tuesday made me put a graphic organizer into Wednesday's plan.
Even though it did.
Who wants to be known as a suck up.
I said
Nothing.
Maybe, just maybe I've learned to keep my mouth shut!
Maybe's it temporary. I'm afraid my good sense will wear off.
I wrote in the last post my reasons for leaving my little pond and big fish title, for the current very big one. I think I am officially a minnow.
No one asks me anything.
I spend my days teaching,
Just teaching.
I have three Resource Rooms, Up to eight students, in four different grades. They appear in the back of a half size classroom with a large south facing window which currently would be more effectively used for growing tomatoes, And I try to do something worthwhile while they're there..
Currently we have been reading an article Is Algebra Necessary? I hoped to spark some lively debate but mostly we just crowd around a table and I try hard to get anyone to say anything. Yesterday one group had a lively discussion about Sponge Bob Square Pants, but it died when I tried to steer the conversation back to the article.
I'm not sure if its the oppressive heat, the incredibly crowded quarters or we're still in the process of sizing each other up.
My two other assigned periods are with a self contained special education math classes. (See and here I thought in the 21st Century no one isolates learning disabled kids into a separate program all day long- shows you what I know)
Bailey told me three times today she hated this class. The third time I gave her a calculator walked her through the first problem and she managed to do the second one (which was something like find the absolute value of x-(-6) when x=4). in the remaining fifteen minutes of the period.She didn't mentioning hating the class again,
Didn't do much work.
But didn't call me over to tell me she hated me and the class.
Kandi only went to the bathroom for twenty minutes, (he's been averaging 30) and Lenny told me he might be able to learn enough math to pass a regents.
So I can still teach isolated self contained classes. (Please, don't read this--- gods of Chaos, I know my mother would have been sure that just typing that sentence would ensure a chair flying through a window tomorrow, but I am bucking a long tradition of superstition and writing it anyway)
My last obligation of the day:
Attending a small learning community session.
Today's discussion, the uselessness of small learning community sessions.
My contribution.
Nothing.
I didn't say watching the video clip about good teaching practices on Tuesday made me put a graphic organizer into Wednesday's plan.
Even though it did.
Who wants to be known as a suck up.
I said
Nothing.
Maybe, just maybe I've learned to keep my mouth shut!
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