1. Not related to teaching- Sarah Ford, you need to update your blog. I'm bored and your blog is NOT entertaining me.
2. I'm starting to think that I have several kids who made a bet to see who could piss me off the most in a day. I have this one kid who gives me these evil little grins when he does stuff that pisses me off. I want to grab him by his throat when he does it. Another kid makes me so made sometimes that I envisioned smacking him in the back of the head with a pencil the other day.
3. Some kids are annoying but I still like them...and I have n0 idea why! Maybe it's because their annoyance is something I would have done at their age and so I find it acceptable. I did tell one of them though that I was imagining myself kicking him. That made the kid, and me, laugh. I then told the same kid to get out of my room before I failed him for the quarter out of sheer spite. He laughed and ran out. While I recognize that I was annoyed, I still like the kid and look forward to seeing him every day so he can annoy me some more. Maybe I'm just pretending annoyance?
4. I have testing again tomorrow and I'm planning on torturing the kids with silent reading during 8th period. They were total monsters on Monday, so this is my revenge....that and I moved a kid over to the "window seat" which means his back is to the whole class and he has to look out the window the whole day. He was pissed, so of course I was supremely happy! I guess I can get back at them even if it's just in little ways.
5. I'm tired of the kids telling me that the kids that have the other language arts teacher have better grades than my kids do. My kids complain that because of homework their grades are suffering. The other teacher gives little to no homework every night and the kids sit there for most of the period listening to her lecture. While I would like to tell my kids this, and that they would be bored out of their gourds, I have to be diplomatic and polite and say that Mrs. So-and-so and I have different teaching styles and that my kids wouldn't be failing if they did the homework! That's secretly what they're mad about...homework. Maybe I should start giving them MORE....*evil laugh* BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
4 comments:
I vote more homework! Always go evil. :)
LOL! I'm so glad that I'm not the only one who secretly wishes to flick the annoying ones you don't like with pencils. I actually have a squishy ball that I have thrown at a few students to get their attention... it makes me and them smile because they knew it was coming! :-D Go evil!
I had a chemistry teacher (my best friend's dad, actually) who gave 80-120 assignments per six week period.
I observed both of the 7th grade LA teachers this year a lot. Mr. C was the little-to-no homework guy, and Mrs. B told her kids on the first day of school that they'd have an outside-of-class reading requirement totalling 25 books over the course of the year. Guess which teacher's kids learned more? Those kids also actually appeared to be having more fun in the class and were much more engaged.
You're doing the right thing. Your kids are probably learning more, and if not, they're getting used to having to do work, which they'll need to be able to do if they want to get through high school and out into the real world and be successful...
Just in case you wanted or needed some justifcation. ;-)
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