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FINAL BLOG POST - OUR "DAILY TRIPLE" (DUE 12/1).
This week I would like you to use your imagination. You have just won the lottery and will leave your teaching post immediately to travel around the world. As you leave your keys you meet your replacement. You are asked to give this new teacher just ONE piece of advice. What would that be, and why? Enjoy your world expedition!

Blog Post - Week 7
This past week in my own teaching I felt a little disconnected which prompts my question to you, "What was the moment (or moments) when I felt most disconnected or disengaged as a teacher - the moment(s) I said to myself, I'm just going through the motions here?"

Fall Semester 2016 Blog Post - Week 6
For the past couple of weeks you have experienced asynchronous online learning (doing modules by yourself). Previously this semester you have experienced synchronous online learning (all together in the Collaborate room). Which do you think is more effective and why do you think that? Which do you like better, and why?

Fall Semester 2016 Blog Post - Week 5
This week we have what we call "open mic." You can write a post about anything related to your teaching that you would like responses from your classmates.

Fall Semester 2016 Blog Post - Week 4
Here is this week's question: "What was the event that most took me surprise this week - and event that shook me up, caught me off guard, gave me a jolt, or made me unexpectedly happy?"

Fall Semester 2016 Blog Post - Week 3
Please write a post about the following question, "In thinking about my past week teaching what is one thing I would do differently, and why?"

Fall Semester 2016 Blog Post - Week 2
Please write a post about the following question, " In thinking about my teaching activities this past week, of what do I feel most proud? Why?"

Fall Semester 2016 Blog Post - Week 1
Describe something you used in your program in the first weeks of school that you learned in the summer NTI program. How did it work? Did it get you off to a stronger start than last year?

Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Hello Everyone,
Well my 1st period class has been decreased from 49 students to about 30. I am struggling with trying to get some order since the decrease. Most of the students have been placed in Health Science against their will. So trying to get them interested is a "CHALLENGE ". I will continue to plug along with them. Take care.
Julia

6 comments:

Jessie H said...

What specific steps are you taking to "get some order"? What strategies seem to be most effective? Have you been able to use any of the techniques we went over at NTI this year? Tell us more.

jjumack said...

I have stood by the student's desk,called the student's name,taken the student outside of the classroom to discuss the behavior and some have been sent to the administrator ( after several attempts to stop the disruptive behavior ). The biggest problem is some of the students don't want to be in the Health Science community. They in turn are disruptive hoping this will get them moved out.

Jessie H said...

This sounds like an administrative problem at your school. The big question is why are these disinterested students being enrolled in your classes in the first place? HSTE courses should not be a dumping ground for disruptive students. Does anyone else have this problem? Any ideas on how to "fix" the problem?

Perry said...

it all comes down to the numbers. if im short in a class and they need somewhere to stuff a kid i get him also. out out of 3 classes of 28 not a single one of them told me they wanted to be a police officer.

Jessie H said...

Perry and Julia, I wonder if you would poll your students at end of the semester (or the school year) by asking them, "Which of you are now interested in working in this field?" what sort of responses you would get. Often, your students don't choose to be in your classes, but I think you can get a lot of converts to your CTE fields as a result of these chance placements into your classes.

Julie J. said...

I have learned over the past three years that CTAE courses are dumping grounds for everything. I have a total of 65 students (as of yesterday) and they are talking of cutting my program. I started out on Day 1 of school with close to 100 total students. They get disinterested when they find out that the teacher is going to make them WORK.
On the other hand, our Business Ed teacher has a total of 156 students and she is pulling her hair out. All of her students want to be there because she has so many she doesn't expect much in terms of classwork/homework. I wish I had her problem truthfully.
The best solution I have come up with is to focus on healthcare as a career and tell them, for those uninterested, how their particular career choice either impacts healthcare or will be impacted by healthcare. The lightbulbs start going off around Christmas time and some even change their career paths by then.