ugh was kinda bummed this morning cuz my 1st year halloween lesson was such a disaster... we did a mask project which shouldn’t have taken as long as it did, but my jte spent like 10min on making them repeat phrases they didn’t even try to retain (can you lend me your the scissors, etc) and then spent a bunch of time on cutting yarn pieces for the students... she wanted them to do it themselves initially, but they didn’t understand how to do it. and then as soon as they would get into it, she’d interrupt them for some kinda mundane instruction and they’d all stop working, so we ended up running out of time... they were supposed to do trick-or-treating with the masks, but we never got to that so they didn’t even get their Halloween stickers!
she also wanted me to a do a lyrics exercise with them to This is Halloween, but THANK GOD i convinced her to let us put that at the end because we’d been doing it in my communications class and i kept trying to tell her it’s a 20-40min activity.... so i’m sneakily doing it with the 1st years in communications class and it’s much more successful in that setting
like she planned specific amounts of time for each part of class, but we ended up going over time for every single one cuz of her lol. so i’m cutting parts of my powerpoint (which was only 15min btw...) so that we can focus on these damn masks since it’ll take her like 20min to give instructions apparently
i feel kinda bad for her, she has no control over the classroom yet tries to be super OVER-controlling, and doesn’t really have a grasp on how to make things interesting for them, so she kinda ends up alienating them from having fun because of it. the same kids i have in communications who are so invested and fun are like dead in her class, it’s kind of a shame. the same thing pretty much happened in my intro lessons too, while they were a total success with the other years. she just tries to do too much sometimes.
HOWEVER, halloween stuff in my communications classes are going super well. i’m doing legit the same powerpoint for the 2nd and 3rd years and then doing the lyrics exercise with them and also only the lyrics exercise with the 1st years and it’s going soooo much better in those classes. so i’m still getting my halloween classes.... just have to finish with the damn 1st year english ones lol. hopefully tomorrow goes better and my jte isn’t too mad i cut out the songs i showed them in the powerpoint (including this is halloween...), but i’m just gonna play them in the background instead.
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