This week I had the chance to observe a fellow teacher. It wasn’t pretty.
Her classroom was being run by 6 boys who did what they pleased when they pleased. They giggled, cracked jokes, were sarcastic, played with balloons and stickers, ignored instructions, roamed around the room, called out.
I don’t think it was their fault.
It was [...]
Posts Tagged ‘responsibility’
Powerless
Homework Blues
Last week the last lingering afterglow of Winter Break sank deep into the bowels of the Pacific Ocean. Kids began to slack off. They stopped doing their homework with any amount of care and attention. On Thursday, the day we have Music, and now, now that I think they’re old enough and mature enough to [...]

