November 2, 2011
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Quarter 1.
Come this Friday I have officially taught for my first 5 weeks as the 10th grade Inclusion teacher. I am going to write my assessment of myself as a reflection and a report card, like the ones I will be handing out to my students next week.
Grade: 80
Conduct: B-
Effort: A
Notes:
Shaun while a diligent worker, doesn’t seem to understand the tasks at hand. He at times seems lost within the other students’ interests. There are times when one student will ask for help on a certain topic, but there will be 4 or 5 others looking for aid in a completely different area, Shaun needs to decide which is more important. Not just for that time and situation but for the long run in this class. Sometimes it seems as though Shaun will pick a certain battle out of the blue, but then ignore something that happens repeatedly. It doesn’t help for a stable classroom setting. There are times however where there is nothing he can do, it is out of his hands and he handles them with grace despite how he might actually be feeling. For instance: it is not his fault if a student repeatedly does not write his or her homework in his or her agenda and then blames you for their failing grade on their quiz/test. It is also not his fault when a student decides to ask if you are on your period, if you are acting kind of moody. It is not his fault when the same student repeatedly skips the same class for a week straight then has a test to take and only gets 6 out 100 right. It is not his fault when a teacher approaches him about a student’s missing work and this is the first he has heard of it. It is his fault when he gets too hard on himself. It is also his fault when he checks Facebook during his Study Hall instead of grading journals. Or when he writes fake Report Cards of himself on his tumblr, also during his Study Hall. Other than that, Shaun is making progress and may one day be a decent teacher.
