It's rainy
It's spring!
Last Tuesday was Janeth's 2nd class in 4th B. Once again, just 20 out of 32 students were present due to the rainy weather. Frankly, the class was a mess at times and the children misbehaved. In addition to this, the class was interrupted in several occasions by both people who were trying to take their children from the school earlier and Janeth herself who was trying to keep the students as quiet as possible.
As regards the activities Janeth had planned to do, the listening activity about Ben's family seemed not to work since they did not pay attention to what Janeth was reading. After this, students were expected to draw a cartoon similar to the one in the listening and write the dialogues introducing their own family. This activity proved to be a bit difficult and some of the students did not even start doing it.
Something to highlight was Janeth's possitive attitude throughout the lesson and her willingness to keep them motivated.
Sometimes, rainy weather gives us the cold shoulder. The good news is : Rain won´t last forever.
ReplyDeleteRead this extract from Teacherman:
"You think you'll walk into the classroom, stand a moment, wait for silence, watch while they open notebooks and click pens, tell them your name, write it on the board, proceed to teach.
On your desk you have the English course of study provided by the school. You'll teach spelling, vocabulary, grammar, reading comprehension, composition, literature.
You can't wait to get to the literature. You'll have lively discussions about poems, plays, essays, novels, short stories. The hands of one hundred and seventy students will quiver in the air and they'll call out, Mr. McCourt, me, me, I wanna say something.
You hope they'll want to say something. You don't want them to sit gawking while you struggle to keep a lesson alive. "
Once again, the good news is : "quivering hands" are possible, just keep on what you are doing and give them time to get to know what you expect from them. Lively lessons have to do with being patient and persistent!