So...lots of things happened today at school.
Because this is my first year and apparently I am too nice and I let the kids run over me a bit, I have summer homework. It has been requested/strongly suggested/required for me to read a few books about classroom management and not really write a report but take notes on several of the strategies. So yippee! Both of the books seem like WONDERFUL summertime reading! I. Am. So. Excited. --Can you tell?-- I am hopeful that I will learn a few things that will help me out it just seems a bit silly that this is an assignment. Maintain Employment. Always say "yes ma'am" to the boss.
On to a lighter note, something I learned today from my students - they found a way to get by the server blockers to go to all of their favorite websites that are NOT school appropriate ie: facebook, myspace, youtube, wikipedia, etc. I WILL NOT tell you how they did it because I completely forgot...wink, wink. I am a bit wary of using it because I don't know if Central Office has some way of checking on that kind of thing and its really not that important to me that I would want to lose my job. Again...Maintain Employment! I just thought it was really interesting that these kids can't read and follow simple directions - Complete jump-start. Log-in to the computer but DO NOT DO ANYTHING ELSE on the computer - but they can find a way around a school system's entire computer security system.
So...those are things that I learned today...or will be learning in the near future.
22 school days left til summer!!!!
1 comment:
We had a kid do that at our school, too, except that he definitely looked up pornographic sites. Smart kid. I can't believe they're requiring you to read those books! I guess I can understand "These are good. If you wanted to read up on classroom management, I'd suggest these." But asking you to read them and take notes? Weird.
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