Classroom Math
Today five of my twenty-three students were absent. That left eighteen. Wow. We had to take a math diagnostic. For the last part, four of my eighteen students went with the special ed teacher. That left fourteen. Double wow. We were able to play musical chairs as a reward for good behavior and two students have now gotten five stickers for staying on their privilege cards, which earned them a piece of candy.
I had to send one student to the office (my last consequence is "out of the room" and the severity of the place where you go depends on what you did.) He hit, pushed, said "shut up," spoke out, did not follow directions. And I was still only going to send him to another teacher's room for timeout, but when I called him over to her room in the hall, he bolted in the opposite direction. I wasn't going to chase him -- he chose not to go into Mrs. H--'s room, so he chose to go to the office. Two other students reached the "out of the room" place on the chart. K--, whose only offense was repeated getting out of his seat/calling out/not sitting still, got a stern talking to in the hall. R--, who did all those things plus drew on her desk and pushed in the hall, went to Mrs. H--'s room. For me, violence earns the sterner punishment.
Math. We took a diagnostic -- end of 2nd grade MCT, for beginning-of-first grade students. Boo. One teacher minus one assistant for two hours wasn't as bad as I thought it might be. One teacher plus one little boy who thinks he has crabs... Hmm. Plus one little girl who won't ever put her hand down. I feel bad ignoring her in case it actually IS important, but it never is. I want to read her the story of the boy who cried wolf. Plus one little girl who told me she could read *anything* but when she struggled with one word on a page, gave up on the SpongeBob book. Plus one little boy who actually doesn't know his letters. Plus one little girl who keeps falling asleep. Plus one little boy who shouldn't keep getting pulled out for special ed because he is doing better than most of the other children. Plus one little girl who cries randomly throughout the day. Equals one math test I don't trust.
I had to send one student to the office (my last consequence is "out of the room" and the severity of the place where you go depends on what you did.) He hit, pushed, said "shut up," spoke out, did not follow directions. And I was still only going to send him to another teacher's room for timeout, but when I called him over to her room in the hall, he bolted in the opposite direction. I wasn't going to chase him -- he chose not to go into Mrs. H--'s room, so he chose to go to the office. Two other students reached the "out of the room" place on the chart. K--, whose only offense was repeated getting out of his seat/calling out/not sitting still, got a stern talking to in the hall. R--, who did all those things plus drew on her desk and pushed in the hall, went to Mrs. H--'s room. For me, violence earns the sterner punishment.
Math. We took a diagnostic -- end of 2nd grade MCT, for beginning-of-first grade students. Boo. One teacher minus one assistant for two hours wasn't as bad as I thought it might be. One teacher plus one little boy who thinks he has crabs... Hmm. Plus one little girl who won't ever put her hand down. I feel bad ignoring her in case it actually IS important, but it never is. I want to read her the story of the boy who cried wolf. Plus one little girl who told me she could read *anything* but when she struggled with one word on a page, gave up on the SpongeBob book. Plus one little boy who actually doesn't know his letters. Plus one little girl who keeps falling asleep. Plus one little boy who shouldn't keep getting pulled out for special ed because he is doing better than most of the other children. Plus one little girl who cries randomly throughout the day. Equals one math test I don't trust.
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