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5 minutes here and there while my class does math.
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I can hardly wait until I get my new PC tablet. I'm skipping WACOM due to price and going for the cheap stuff that requires batteries. My WACOM has lasted me 7 years, but it's past it's retirement and I can't get a "pencil" effect out of it at all. 1024 points of pressure sensitivity, here I come. Then again, I'll never come up with anything good on the computer. I'm a charcoal pencil person.
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Okay...I'm a 4th grade teacher. They have self control and can sit on one place for more than 10 minutes. There are two subjects I am allowed to teach: Reading and Math. In the morning, I go over reading for 2 hours, then the students do an assignment on their own for the next 10 minutes. Then we grade the work together, going over each question about 10 minutes each, and then we go to lunch. Lunch time is roughly 20 minutes total (that includes recess). We then return to class and do a (as in 1 of those 20 minute lessons, but it takes me about 2 hours to get them to actually grasp the concept) math lesson for the next two hours. Then the students do work for about 10 minutes on their own. Then we grade the work together and go over each question for about 10 minutes as if they were their own lesson. Essentially I have taught an entire year of Math and Reading concepts at the 4th grade (and a bit of the 5th grade) level in less than 18 weeks.POOPERSCOOPER wrote:Those are pretty good but it reflects that you are a bad teacher. Though you are a kindergarden teacher(ARNULD LOL) so I guess its more about babysitting.
My class has gone from an average of 31% in Reading to about a 50%. We've gone from a 31% in Math to about a 53% in Math. The assessments used are intentionally 20% more difficult (as in they're written for students two grades higher). This means that my students have gone from failing to a "C" or "Average" score....Which is the goal for the end of the year Criterion Reference Tests given in the 3rd, 4th, 5th, 8th, and 11th grades. During the next 19 weeks we will go over the same materials again at a higher grade level equivalent as to hopefully raise their scores above the district average.
I've got documentation to prove these claims, I assure you. Am I going to scan about 200 pages of data to show you? No. But for you to say I'm a bad teacher because out of the entire day I choose to have 5 minutes to myself while my students work on a worksheet on their own (or in heterogeneous groups should the lesson prove challenging), then you're a moron in that you have no idea what it is like to teach children coming to you with a second or first grade reading level or a first or second grade math level and bring each and every one of them (with the exception of two of the four students on IEPs; my school has total inclusion for special education students) up to grade level in just 17 weeks.
In essence, I guess I took offence.
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