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Nov
26
It Was Going To Be Easy
Filed Under "At-risk" students, The Way I See It
It was going to be easy. Everyone was telling me that it was going to be easy. One of my students was going to earn his Careers credit using the Independent Learning Centre’s on-line course. Another student was going to earn his geography credit using the credit recovery geography curriculum and two other students were going earn their credits using the ILC’s course as an on-line text book ( It has some really nice videos) to supplement the lessons I created.
It seemed easy enough. That is until reality set in after the first week. The student who was to earn his careers credit using the on-line course hates the format. He is a hands-on learner who hates to read and likes to learn by discussing things in small teacher led groups. The on-line course has tons of reading, that he has to do on his own. He’s starting to come late and starting to skip class. The student who was going to earn the geography credit has started not coming to class, is not self-motivated and needs one- on-one all the time. He’s starting to skip class and do nothing in class if I’m not at his elbow. The other two students love the on-line course, but are getting distracted by their personal problems and sometimes cannot concentrate and consequently do little.
Why does it always look so easy on paper and is so hard in the classroom? Why? Because of the human factors in the classroom- the student’s learning style, the student’s personality, and the student’s personal problems outside of school. I guess I forgot about the human factor while I was worrying about teaching subjects that I have never taught before and do not have a degree in. How ironic. Dealing with the human factors in the classroom is usually my strength. I was so worried about teaching the content I didn’t know, I forgot about the human factor. I can laugh now, but I can tell you I wasn’t laughing last week.
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