Mr. Griffin was not in school today, so he left me in charge
of his fast paced math classes (his other math classes were easier to handle
because they were either watching a movie, or doing a worksheet when they had
other specialists available for help). However, his fast paced math classes
were all me.
We first went over the homework from the long weekend (sorry
to the kids because they had more homework over the weekend because they had a
few extra days to do it) and then the class worked together to complete a
worksheet on factoring (what was not done would be the night’s homework).
The scariest thing is to watch these kids get really
confused on factoring (all on different things, and when there are over twenty
kids in the class, I can’t answer everyone’s questions in one class period).
They have a quiz on Friday, and I am not sure if everyone will be ready for it.
I tried to teach them the concepts through the problems they had questions on
for last night’s homework, but during the class worksheet, people still had a
lot of trouble, particularly on grouping terms. I tried to teach a few kids
about grouping because they had questions, so I talked to them one on one or
two on one, but the general feel of the class makes me really nervous. I’m
worried that I didn’t do a good enough job so that they feel good for the quiz
and that Mr. Griffin will have a ton of work to do during his extra-help
morning sessions.
I also made a few mistakes while helping kids out or
answering their questions but I went to them afterwards and told them the right
answer. I hope I didn’t confuse them too much. It’s also really hard when
everyone in the class has questions on different problems, and they’re all
asking me to help them at the same time—I might as well do the whole worksheet
with them in class. The kids were also really rowdy today, maybe because
Memorial Weekend felt so much like summer, but making them focus was a hard
thing to do. The substitute actually had to make some kids go out into the hall
(for a “time-out”) because they were being so rowdy. Eighth graders…
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