So obviously, I haven't been doing such a great job maintaining my blog. What have I been doing instead?
1. Teaching 151 tenth-graders.
2. Dealing with the emotional issues of 151 tenth-graders, ranging from pregnancies, breakups, and fights.
3. Grading the papers, quizzes, and work of 151 tenth-graders.
4. Trainings and professional developments.
In other words, Ms. Chen has no life.
Even though I am super excited for Thanksgiving to come, and then Christmas, the quick passing of time has also gotten me super stressed. There is a graph they showed us at the before we started teaching:
Yep, I seem to be just right on schedule. Deep in the pit of disillusionment.
Between the fights, suspensions, and wasted learning time, our big goals seem harder and harder to attain. Looking at my data, my students are nowhere close to 80% mastery of concepts. We took benchmark tests a couple of weeks ago that I judged to be rather simple. What was the class average?
About 62%.
While my first response was to chalk it up to general unwillingness to try and the students not taking it seriously (come one, 4% of my kids put "E" as an answer for the multiple choice test..."E" wasn't even listed as an answer option!), I can't help but remember that academic impact model we learned about at institute.
Teacher actions directly influence student actions.
As a teacher, where am I failing them? How can I invest them? Why are they not learning?
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