This week was really difficult for me. I didn’t understand the question at all, even when I had someone else try and explain it to me, I was still completely lost. So eventually I came up with the idea to just type the question into google and a few sources came up, not many though. I was kind of discouraged that there weren’t many sources that I could find because reading through the different articles, I was still lost. Then I started reading other people’s blogs and realized that maybe there just weren’t many sources, because it seemed like most of us had a few of the same in our bibliographies. But, I got it done and I tried my best and that’s what I always tell my students to do, try their best that’s all they can do, so I posted it and continued on with my week and didn’t look back.
I started really observing this week, since last week I only got to observe one day. It went pretty well, at least in my opinion. I’m just still worried that what I’m collecting won’t actually support my question at all. Am I the only one with this fear? I do feel like the teacher/student relationships I am building with my 7th grade boys though is improving, whether their grades are improving or not. They are staying the same for now, but I think that’s pretty good since they have never learned in a flipped classroom method before now. Plus it gives me a lot more time to work one-on-one with them and get to know them. They are still in this state where I get after them for doing something wrong that they think I don’t like them, when it’s not that at all, it’s just usually they are being disrespectful and needed corrected, it doesn’t mean I don’t like them. I tell them to stop and it’s over. So it’s given me the realization to remind them I’m not mad at them, I just want to make sure they grow up to be respectful. I have mentioned something like that to a few of them and they responded well, so I need to remember to keep doing it. They are enjoying class though, or at least less homework, which is always a plus.
This week reading through other people’s posts, I feel like I maybe have a better understanding of data mining. I don’t really know how I helped the learning of others, except for maybe in my update posting what I was doing in class and Theresa responded that it was good to know what I was doing and she was going to try an interview or survey so she was able to get their input and not just her opinion of what they think about the situation.
While sometimes it’s a little stressful with the data collection and doing the blogs each week, I realized tonight that the blogs are really helping. There are many things I wouldn’t do until the end, such as analyzing if we weren’t continuing to learn and then I would be in trouble. While it seems like a lot of work sometimes because of everything else that is going on, I’m enjoying getting the chance to purposely get to know my kids because I feel like I’m more intentional about it now than I was before. I only see them 50 minutes a day and it’s hard to get to know them when the whole 50 minutes used to be used to teach. If anything else, it’s giving me a chance to joke around with them and have a little fun. Too much seriousness is never good!
I started really observing this week, since last week I only got to observe one day. It went pretty well, at least in my opinion. I’m just still worried that what I’m collecting won’t actually support my question at all. Am I the only one with this fear? I do feel like the teacher/student relationships I am building with my 7th grade boys though is improving, whether their grades are improving or not. They are staying the same for now, but I think that’s pretty good since they have never learned in a flipped classroom method before now. Plus it gives me a lot more time to work one-on-one with them and get to know them. They are still in this state where I get after them for doing something wrong that they think I don’t like them, when it’s not that at all, it’s just usually they are being disrespectful and needed corrected, it doesn’t mean I don’t like them. I tell them to stop and it’s over. So it’s given me the realization to remind them I’m not mad at them, I just want to make sure they grow up to be respectful. I have mentioned something like that to a few of them and they responded well, so I need to remember to keep doing it. They are enjoying class though, or at least less homework, which is always a plus.
This week reading through other people’s posts, I feel like I maybe have a better understanding of data mining. I don’t really know how I helped the learning of others, except for maybe in my update posting what I was doing in class and Theresa responded that it was good to know what I was doing and she was going to try an interview or survey so she was able to get their input and not just her opinion of what they think about the situation.
While sometimes it’s a little stressful with the data collection and doing the blogs each week, I realized tonight that the blogs are really helping. There are many things I wouldn’t do until the end, such as analyzing if we weren’t continuing to learn and then I would be in trouble. While it seems like a lot of work sometimes because of everything else that is going on, I’m enjoying getting the chance to purposely get to know my kids because I feel like I’m more intentional about it now than I was before. I only see them 50 minutes a day and it’s hard to get to know them when the whole 50 minutes used to be used to teach. If anything else, it’s giving me a chance to joke around with them and have a little fun. Too much seriousness is never good!