Wk 7 - Day 31

I think the hardest part of today was listening to a student who was still looking for pictures and talking more than working...tell me that his family is okay with his grade of a D...as long as it isn’t an F. I don’t know how to motivate a student when he isn’t motivating himself and obviously his family isn’t either. I worked with him and his partner a little extra, but I refuse to do the work for them. once again, the majority of the students are plugging away, but for those that aren’t...i wonder how they’ll be at the end of class tomorrow when it’s due.

this is the second day of having a substitute for mrs. s’s classes. I get along very well with mrs.s and I’m grateful to be in her classroom, but I do enjoy having the class all to myself. ms. b and I get along very well too, but we don’t have very much time to work together at all because of schedule conflicts. the only time we can meet is after school and so far she’s had meeting every day this week. so far...we’ve met twice since I’ve been here...this is not a good match and not because of teaching style or personality...just because of time.