Today, almost all of the delightful students in Ms. Grady's AVID class seemed to need to go to the library today to work on a science project. Apparently each student has to do their project on a certain scientist, and nobody has started it AT ALL.....gotta love middle school students. I took this as an opportunity to teach them good study habits, and as I told my tutee, I am probably the world's worst procrastinator and all that does is bring increasing amounts of stress on the procrastinator, not to mention you usually don't do a proper job when your rushing. I know this probably went through one ear and out the other, but the teacher in me won out and I decided to give the lecture.
Anyway, of course, all the females in the class decided to sit together and immediately got off task. It was such a pain to keep walking over there and tell them to focus. Finally, I decided to walk over there, and ask them a question about their person. If they did not know, their assignment for me was to find out the answer by the next time I walked over. This worked very efficiently and the students stayed on task after that while learning a lot about their assigned person! I felt like such a teacher = ] .
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My brother was in the 8th grade last year, and he would always complain about some of the work he had to do because he waited until the last minute. I am also a huge procrastinator, so I know the stress it can cause. So I advised him to work on his study habits because school will only get harder. I felt like such a role model.
ReplyDeletelol sounds like you were very successful in your method! i could'nt do it that's for sure. 'Cause think about it, at that age you were doing the same thing so mmy perspective is who am i now to be that person??? lol Also a reason why i could never be a teacher.
ReplyDeleteYou sound like you're going to be a great Teacher girl! I don't have the patience but someone's gotta do it!
ReplyDeleteSome things honestly never change.. I can't blame most of these students though. I hate doing work on my homework or projects in class, because I need that rush from procrastination to actually get anything done! I think I need to hear some of your good study habits. :)
ReplyDeleteHaha that sucks that none of them started, but i was 13 once and i probably wouldnt have yet either!
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