In some classes the lab went really well. In some classes it didn't. There wasn't any big problems, just some people not actually doing any of it. That was a problem. That is a problem. What can I do when students won't do work? Its one thing when they don't answer questions or take notes, but when they refuse to go through the process of the lab, when they avoid productivity at any cost.
I have one class, thats very large, has students with IEPs, and has many 'behavior problems.' There are several of them who have below a twenty in my class.
During class I get mad at them, I'm upset with them disrupting MY class, them stopping the other kids from learning. But at home every night, I realize/remember/think that its not their fault. They have been hurt, beaten down, destroyed, mentally, usually physically and sometimes sexually. They want to learn, somewhere in there. They come to school every day (or 3 times a week, or one who I've seen about 9 times this semester). They want to graduate, go to college, live differently then their guardians. I need to figure out how to keep their eye on the prize, and not on who said what to whom in what tone of voice and what it means for who will be at whose house this weekend.
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