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- From: Sheila.King@f315.n103.z1.fidonet.org (Sheila King)
- Newsgroups: k12.chat.teacher
- Subject: 02/RE: MISSED MESSAGE ON
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- Date: 23 Jan 93 03:06:00 GMT
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- continued to Amarit:
-
- -> If a student writes on a desk, I sometimes get the student to
- -> transfer it to paper, if it's art, and then I'll wipe the desk off
- -> while he/she sits there... I'd also strike up a conversation with the
- -> kid, and not really make him feel as though I'm trying to punish him.
- -> It works...I'll talk to him about the whole writing on the desk
- -> thing, but it generally gets to be a conversation that doesn't
- -> revolve around the "offense" and more than likely, the student won't
- -> do it again, won't have to say after class against his will, and I'll
- -> get the desk clean. Once, while I was teaching, a student was
- -> writing on a desk, and I made a paper airplane while teaching. I
- -> threw the plane to the kid and told him to use that instead...the
- -> next day, he noticed that his desk was clean, and that I had put his
- -> "doodle" up on the wall...it was pretty cool for him...and for me
- -> too. I knew that he had learned something, because he always doodled
- -> in pencil after that :)
-
- That is really neat, and I'm glad that you have such a way of handling
- things that works for you. But not all teachers can be "cool". Each
- teacher has a different style that works for him or her, and that's OK.
- I don't think that artwork thing would work for me. Besides, what do you
- do about the obscene words that occassionally appear on the desks? And
- please don't think that I have never cleaned the desks off myself, even
- during class time while my students are right there. Because I have.
-
- -> Have you ever bothered to ask what the student would LIKE to do
- -> instead?
-
- Sometimes. I have let them know that if they have something else they
- really feel that they need to do, they can ask permission. But usually I
- prefer to see them work on the math, since I can go around the room and
- see if they understand the problems or not. That way, if the student is
- having any difficulty we get it ironed out before they go home, so that
- hopefully the homework assignment will go smoother. I know that the
- other classes are also important. But I can't really help them with
- their Latin, or Chemistry. So I'd rather have them work on math.
-
- -> I've taken a class out to the yard because someone wanted to play
- -> basketball...there I taught them simple mathematics that most seniors
- -> in high school don't even get a grasp on! These were 7th graders.
-
- Congratulations on such a successful lesson. I've had a few of those
- myself (well, all of mine were inside the classroom...).
-
- -> No, I didn't get them to do their lesson THAT day,
-
- This happens to me occassionally, too, and it doesn't ruin my life.
-
- -> and by the end of the year, I didn't finish EVERYTHING I was supposed
- -> to do,
-
- I never have yet, and I've been teaching for 10 years.
-
- -> Sheila, please don't take offense to what I'm saying.
-
- Well, since you ask me not to, I will try to do that. But really, your
- messages have a tone of me being a poor misguided black sheep of a
- teacher, who scares all her students, and they hate her, and they hate
- her class and don't understand the teacher's reasons for doing anything.
- And that just isn't the way it is in my class. And you think that your
- way is apparently the only correct way to handle a class, when it is
- not. It is a very good way, and it is a way that works for you. But it
- doesn't mean that other ways don't work too, and that you can't still
- have a different way of managing your class and ALSO have a good
- relationship with your students. I love my students. They are the reason
- I teach.
-
- -> I'm not known as a strict teacher...I'm known as a kid.
-
- Well, I could expand on mine...I'm known as a strict teacher, who's
- pretty nice, teaches a challenging course, but explains things pretty
- well.
-
- Sheila
- coming to you from Diamond Bar, CA (in Los Angeles County)
-
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