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Good Morning NTI Family,

Today is TGIF and I look forward to our 3 days off. I now have a new assignment during 2nd period each day. I have been asked to go into a Spanish class that supposedly has students with behavior problems. So Wed. was my first day in there and from my observation, the students are very talkative (freshmen what do you expect?) and want attention and love. Some of them are off task without textbooks or sleeping in class, but there are not bad students in this class. Now all of these topics were discussed this summer during NTI and I recall that there are several methods that need to be done according to the situation at hand. Mind you the major problems I witnessed were: a teacher that has poor classroom management skills and yells at the students alot. She makes fun of the students and uses sly remarks to degrade them if they do something wrong. Yesterday, she gave them an assignment and failed to provide proper instructions, so the students kept talking and asking questions. The list goes on and on. However, this teacher has been teaching for 5 years and obviously hasn't been through NTI so she is not an effective teacher. She knows how to speak Spanish well because that is her native language and she expects that all her students should learn it quickly. So, this has been quite interesting for me to go in and be the "Behavior Bouncer" and keep the students in order when the teacher is the one out of order.

On another note, I think I have a job, but waiting on the interview. I've been applying like crazy to all high schools, so if any of you have leads, send them my way or email me.

Oh I must go put on my "Bouncer Hat" for class next period...