Can Someone Find the Switch?
Today I had a depressing experience as a teacher.
Background: here in EP (the English Program where I work) students can’t fail. If a student fails a test, they retest. If they fail the retest, they retest. Etc. I have had students fail. I have sat down with them and had the joy of watching things start to click.
Today during class I noticed a girl wasn’t even trying to do the classwork I had assigned. I tried to encourage her to work at it. Nothing was clicking. No lights were coming on.
I hope lights come on when we talk outside of class.
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It happens, sometimes. Hopefully things will go better.
Hey friend,
Hang in there! Some good advice somebody gave me this year: when the kids don’t want success/progress/etc. you sometimes have to want it enough for the both of you.
Hope you are well.