The past couple weeks I have really enjoyed my class. I never expected to enjoy being in an 8th grade classroom like I do. Although the student's are very chatty, they have real personalities unlike many younger grades.
One thing that I have noticed that is very negative for these students are the numerous snow days they have been having. I do not know what it is about these Kentucky schools in this area, but they can not seem to take care of their roads. Campbell County had off 3 days in a row. I understand things like this happen but this would be very frustrating for a teacher who is trying to stay on track on the curriculum. Also my teacher told me that they will end up having school much longer in the year because of the amount of snow days they have had already. The day the students came back, after their 3 snow days and weekend, the teacher could barely get the students on track because of their break.
Hopefully this week will be better now that they are getting back on track!
1 comment:
Jessica, this is very frustrating. At my Practicum site, there have been a lot of snow days. The kids do tend to get out of control, because they get used to the time off. It is a good experience for us to see how teachers handle these situations. We can then reflect on how we might do things differently or the same in our classrooms.
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