Wednesday I went in totally ready to "wait" as long as it took. 1) They had just gotten a word search so they didn't care 2) The girls banded together against me because I had "accused one of them of being a liar" (I would never call a student a liar.....but I had questioned her for lying to both me and the other teacher. She had clearly lied about something and she got very defensive when we called her on it).
Anyway, the afternoon eventually led to the Vice Principal coming in and trying to take over the class (I feel better about myself because he wasn't able to handle them any better than me...YES...thank Gawd). We ended up coming to the conclusion that I should never be the only adult in the classroom, I should always have support. So we will be working on making that possible.
The VP, my team teacher, and I all sat down and talked about how we could make afternoons more flexible. We decided that we can't be too hard on ourselves if the afternoons go haywire. Time for a NEW PLAN!!!
Here's what I'm trying on Monday: Two Health and Career Lessons, Two Art Lessons. Leave all the instructions on the tables with all the supplies, tell them they need to pick one lesson from each subject....and then help the students who want the help and work on preventing the others from distracting each other too much. GUH. I guess I'll see how it goes.
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