Monday is hard! Haha. I am realizing how much I have to scaffold the learning for my students, and I am finding that it's easy to want to do too much too soon. Grammar, reading, writing, vocab, article of the week, editing....everything requires so much frontloading. Even though it is only the second week, I feel bad that we are still doing worksheets to understand how to use the textbook or review grammar concepts. How can I make it more exciting and interesting while still completing these beginning of the year tasks?
This week I have already had some changes to make. One of my procedures that I explained last week didn't work as smoothly as I had originally hoped. Today I changed the procedure, and we will see how it works this week.
As far as my last period goes, I think part of the problem with classroom management is me. I need to be more clear on my expectations. When I give directions, I need to tell my students every step and what to do afterwards. Today that class period worked silently (probably because I threatened them with a test tomorrow if they didn't work diligently today), but the noise started once some of the kids were done with the assignment. I guess they didn't know what to do, and I needed to be more specific on my procedures for after assignments. Well, I guess it is another thing I can put on my "To Do Better" list. (That list seems to keep getting longer and longer).
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