Motivating Students
For the past two days i've been struggling trying to get my students motivated enough to pay attention to what I'm talking about. 80% of them could care less about health. I thought that today would be a little different because the topic was the media and it's influence on health. They didn't seem to care. I bought in clips from TV and tried to have a discussion, the only class that responded was second hour. It's quite frustrating when I teach and ask question and the question I get back it, "where we at?" I'm supposed to have a mentor, but because I'm the only health teacher in the building the principal suggested that the head of the department who teaches PE be my mentor. I guess I'm underestimating him, but I want someone who has an actual classss and who will take baby steps with me and hold my hand a little because I'm not feeling very confident right now. I also want someone who will allow me to be myself. I'm going to try to make this the best year, but i'm struggling now.
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Wenesday was so bad at school for me that I wanted to quit. I was DREADING Thursday and felt on the verge of tears before my classes started, but THANK GOODNESS they went much better. It's tough with these kids, they know who is new and who is a sub and they definitely try to test their teachers.
i understand the feeling. i barely enjoyed my three day weekend because i was fretting over the fact that on tuesday i had to be back in the classroom, but thankfully today was a good day.
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