Six Word Saturday

I can't do this by myself.

OR

It's not my problem to fix.



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I tried to review this week because we are close to the end. I tried to come up with things to raise their grades, because they wouldn't do the previous choices (which were chosen because they were valid).

This is what I learned:
1) I was teaching something and told them how to do it "by hand". "How do I enter it into the calculator?" It isn't difficult to do by hand, and I do not know how to do it in a calculator, so I said "I don't know." And the winning response to asking her to work? "That's not fair!" She is a senior and about to find out a lot of things are not fair.

2) I tried to review, they want games. So I let them come up with the review. (And I picked a valid way to do it.) They didn't come to school, didn't stop talking. They were as rude to each other as they are to me. And I am trying to pass them along, not because they are brilliant and know this stuff, because they don't - but because I know they will do less if they are repeaters.

3) Gave another group of failing students the option of recovering via the computer - could not keep them on task or in the room.

4) On the bright side, the ones who are low performers who have had me for more than a semester, seem to have figured out how I work and are stepping up to the plate.

I read this about millenials in the workplace. Maybe I just don't throw enough parties?