How well do you do interacting with your students? What concerns do you have about interacting with your students?
I think this week I have done well interacting with my group. THey have been very receptive to direction and have been very open with thier ideas. The only concern I have had this week has been that maybe I'm not providing enough direction and that they are reluctant to ask questions.
WIth my own students and I sometimes have difficulty interacting with the very disengaged students. I am not sure how to get them to engage with the lesson and some of my students can get a bit ugly when challenged to do somethign they don't want to. I am fearful of conflict - especially physical conflict and am reluctant to push the envelope with students who present a negative attitude when asked to participate. However, I have found myself to be pretty good with MOST students - there are only a very few who I feel that have fallen into this latter category in the last 5 years of teaching. I will not write a student off but this semester was challenging to keep myself from just giving up on students that I just could not find any way to connect with.
I wish all my students could be as engaged and enthusiastic as my group has been this week - then the job would be easY!!!
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