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?"
Just recently I was teaching one of my classes, I want to say that it was my 5th period. Fifth period is right after lunch and the students come in to my classroom very loud and restless. It takes me a while to settle this class down. So on this day I had tried everything that I felt like I had learned. My set induction was ignored. My directions to their independent learning activity were ignored; however, when I modeled the concept they acted if though they were listening. It was just a weird day with that particular class. At the end of the period students completed the activity but I felt as though they did not pay me any attention. At the end of the day I could have been in my feeling because I did not get the responses that I thought that would receive. Students will give you a hard time on some days and be unresponsive even though they are paying attention. This really made me feel disconnected as their instructor.
