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
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.
ReplyDeleteI 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.
ReplyDeleteThis 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?
ReplyDeleteit 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.
ReplyDeletePerry 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.
ReplyDeleteI 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.
ReplyDeleteOn 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.