Well… I am a new (first
year) teacher. I am enjoying it thus far; however, I have been struggling with
my time management when it comes to my classroom and getting my students on
track and encouraging them to do the classwork that requires reading and
writing. When students come in the class, I do my transfer in, then my bell ringer.
After my bell ringer, I start my lecture. My students murmur and complain about
the lectures and taking notes. It’s like they hate to listen, read and write. Well I started giving them guided notes so
they can keep up with me. I give them fun work sheets to do that will help test
their knowledge; however, they complain about doing work sheets. I think they
think my class is supposed to be the talk and have fun class and I have to
constantly remind them that it is not. I feel like they have no self-motivation
when it comes to doing class work. I end up spending more classroom time on encouraging
them and telling the how important it is to read and write because they will be
doing that for the rest of their lives. I look up and it’s almost time to go
and they haven’t completed the work sheet. I need some suggestions on how and
what I can do different. Every day can’t be a lab or courtroom day. Please help
me. I need suggestions.
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1 comment:
Same goes for me all my kids what to do is go to the lab, they don't see the importance of the classroom in construction. What I have done these last few weeks is assigned a topic and have them create a presentation for the class so that they teach the lesson instead of me. Each group is assigned a different topic and have 4 days to work on presentation in class and present on Friday. This week they will be given a section form the book to read and using text anointing take notes and discuss with there neighbor, reread and then fish with a whole class discussion.I hope this gives you some ideas, the first year is hear it gets better from here.
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