December 6, 2005
One of the teachers on my team took half of our students on a field trip, so my classes were very sparsely populated today. Unfortunately, it seems as though the kids that didn't go are all the kids that are badly behaved. During SSR today it seemed as though I was spending my time trying to get them under control. It frustrates me becuase I'm a better teacher than that. I haven't been able to finish an entire lesson in almost a week because of the behaviors and the distractions. Today we had a group of 8th graders run through the 6th grade hallway screaming bloody murder. There are no adults in the hallway to shoo them, so the older kids have free reign of the school.Every three weeks my students are given progress reports that they are asked to take to all their classes to get their grades, then they need to get a parent signature on it and return it to their SSR teacher. I attatch my class progress report and request a parent signature on that as well. I keep these in their files so when the parents sit down with us at conferences and ask why their kid is failing, I've got documentation.
(Don't you love that word? Documentation. Every teacher knows that word)
Of course, they all fail to remember that they had already seen the progress report and signed it. Almost always the parents will argue with me.
The progress reports were due today, and I had less than a 35% return on them. How do I entice my students to bring in their progress reports on time? How do I convince the parents that grades are important?
posted by lobo5747 @ 4:36 PM
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