I gave out a sheet with grades on it so far and one of the kids
who continualy talks approached me today, so at least one does.
Its hard to keep them at the end of the period because they have
lunch, and I dont want to hold them from not getting lunch and
get in trouble for that. Ive tried individually talking with
them outside of class, even having them leave class to fill out
a paper on the situation, but some of them just think its a
joke. Its a high school class so I like to have discussions with
them but whenever one person is talking theres 5 other
conversations going on, so I have to stop the person who is
supposed to be talking. I dont know if Im not teaching well
enough and not connecting with them or just not disciplining
them good enough.
On 2/27/08, Leah wrote:
> Thoughts:
> Do they care about their grade in Health?
> For every minute they take to settle down, add to the end of
the period.
> Do some hands on things.
> Have them role play situations where they need to use refusal
skills.
> Have them earn time to discuss what is really on their mind or
time to visit with
> each other.
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