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About Me
- Dr. Susan Ferguson
- I teach English Education, Foreign Language Education, and ESL Education, and I advise STEM Education Majors at the University of South Alabama in Mobile, Alabama--and I LOVE IT! I love to invite others to find the poet that is within them--I am certain a poet lies within each of us!
So this week has already started off wonderfully. Not only is that remediation class horrifying to begin with, but I got an email from the state dept. today about what some of my students had been doing in their online sections of the class instead of the work...
ReplyDeleteSome of them were emailing each other...the emails were so sexually explicit that they are now not allowed to use the computers anymore because of the content. This is not only unacceptable, but it is a real pain for me. I'm not even supposed to be teaching these kids, but now they don't have access to the main resource that they're supposed to be working from in there.
I don't what I'm going to do. I can't watch them every second - especially when they're online because they minimize the windows when I walk by. We haven't even gotten half way through the semester and I'm praying for it to be over!!
Give me some advice, please!
Wow! This is one of those things we don't expect and are not prepared for. Could you give them a special project that they might work on together so that their time is consumed but hopefully in a more constructive way?
ReplyDeleteI know exactly how you feel. I had a remadiation class last semester during fourth block. I can't tell you how much they didn't care. Two boys kept drawing "boy parts" on the walls until I took a picture of them and showed them to their parents. I gave them as amny group projects as I could and prayed for absences. You will make it through.
ReplyDeleteWell, I finally made it to my destination, this blog. I feel like a hooray is in order. Well, I wanted to stay that I plan a field trip for my students. My students and I worked hard on preparing the details. However, it was denied and I am bummed. I love things like this but my principal said the board does not want any more out of town trips. Melanie, I have never taught remadiation but I have a close friend who has. I know it can be torture and I am sorry I have no advise. You love German and I know thats what you want to teach and it is hard when this happens. I will be praying for you.
ReplyDeleteWell, I'm definitely going to be giving them an assignment. Work from the workbooks, without the computer so they can't do this kind of thing anymore! (or at least not as easily)
ReplyDeleteIt is very difficult to have every, single child's attention. I was observed last year. One suggestion from from my asst. principal was to make sure that EVERY chiLD was on task. Of course, I thought that they were. She noticed one child had finished before the others and had begun working on something else. (She was the only child done, but it did remind me that all children work at different paces.)
ReplyDeleteI left an assignment for my students today, because I was out sick, and tried to plan something constructive for the early finishers to do. I was thinking that if I have a job next year, I am going to have several ongoing independent projects that they can work on when they finish before the others. Maybe an illustrated book about themselves using all the letters of the alphabet.
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