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How I Cured Morgellons
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2/24/2019 12:20:47 PM |
Please keep posting stories about your adventures in teaching. I cracked up about the "vibes," and could just see their blank faces as they thought about your feedback. I taught reading improvement in junior high one year and can totally relate to your attempts to lead these young minds into a wider usage of the English language. I'd just read the book Bringing Words to Life and had jumped on board the authors' philosophy with great enthusiasm. We had short activities every day, and I had high hopes that their vocabularies would explode under my superior teaching expertise. Oh how these little darlings can bring you back down to the real world in an instant. Here's a related teaching story...names will be changed to protect the innocent (and the not so innocent). Let's just say my name is Ms. Smith. Since I was the new teacher that year, I'd been given the class that was not on any teachers first choice list. It was tough that year...my classes were over crowded...I also had to be year book adviser...there was a lot of pressure for state test scores and this little (or large) motley group were the ones who could swing the scores one way or another. You know what I mean...the pressure was on...and you also know that kids can feel this pressure and that does not make things any easier. Discipline was not their long suit...and the word "circus" still comes to mind as I remember my second period class. In that well remembered second period class I had two especially memorable seventh grade boys who were best friends. They were both charming in their own ways, but...for lack of better terms...also very silly and loud. No big surprise there...they were just doing their developmentally appropriate "jobs" for kids that age...but they also did an excellent job of disrupting the class if I didn't keep a lid on it. They were liking the vocabulary lessons though...and I think this was because there were oral activities and games involved. One day I had to break up a little spit ball throwing fest between these two, and they were not happy (neither was I). I moved them to opposite sides of the room and, as a result, much complaining and pouting ensued. I shut that down by telling them to get onto their assignments, and one of the assignments was to write one sentence using two words from the word wall. Much emphasis was placed on making sure the sentence illustrated the meaning of both words without actually writing the definition (as some would have tried to do if I'd not said don't do it ahead of time). It was an assignment meant to make them think. One of the boys got busy right away, and I was so pleased he'd finally decided to apply himself. Here's what he wrote... "Mrs. Smith is a maniacal tyrant." I gave him a 100 for both content and usage. He was correct. Love, Karen | |||
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