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I swear my head is about to explode.
I haven't felt this stressed out in forever. Forever being recent memory. Which is not so recent, as looooong term.
I'm teaching a 4/5/6 grade split for my second practicum at a great school It's something that I willingly walked into with all my confidence and esteem. Six days later, I feel like pulling my hair out. I can see how to teach a two grade split, but at that point, the relation to a three grade split stops. How in the muther do you teach to a weak grade four student and an advanced grade six student at the same time? Group work, student centred, informational stations...some of these options work, but some of the time you have to sit the class down and work with them to teach and guarantee knowledge of straight up testable subjects. If you try to teach latitude and longitude, have six kids know it, four completely lost on a grid system, and those in the middle frustrated at the inability of others to learn, plus behavioural issues, when do you not start spraying an aerosaled sedative?
And here I am working so hard to not have beer for five weeks while at practicum. Yeah, like I'll be drinking less wine at this rate.
I haven't felt this stressed out in forever. Forever being recent memory. Which is not so recent, as looooong term.
I'm teaching a 4/5/6 grade split for my second practicum at a great school It's something that I willingly walked into with all my confidence and esteem. Six days later, I feel like pulling my hair out. I can see how to teach a two grade split, but at that point, the relation to a three grade split stops. How in the muther do you teach to a weak grade four student and an advanced grade six student at the same time? Group work, student centred, informational stations...some of these options work, but some of the time you have to sit the class down and work with them to teach and guarantee knowledge of straight up testable subjects. If you try to teach latitude and longitude, have six kids know it, four completely lost on a grid system, and those in the middle frustrated at the inability of others to learn, plus behavioural issues, when do you not start spraying an aerosaled sedative?
And here I am working so hard to not have beer for five weeks while at practicum. Yeah, like I'll be drinking less wine at this rate.