April 30, 2008, Wednesday
In English class, we finished off reading Chapter 9 and as their task they need to write 8 rules for Jonas and pretend that they were the Chief Elder giving David specific rules that he needs to follow as part of his Assignment. The students were receptive in writing down these rules. In fact, I was pretty impressed! They were able to relate the experiences they have as students with medical and clinical problems to ones of Jonas’s rules, which is Rule No. 6 “Except for illness or injury unrelated to your training, do not apply for any medication. Three of them wrote about allowing Jonas to take medications – and the fun part was when one of them wrote about allowing Jonas to have 30-min break everyday and 2-weeks off from his job every six months! I think they feel the strains that Jonas is feeling in the book that is why some days off are necessary for them to write. But all together, I am pretty impressed with their work! Tomorrow, they are expected to present their work in class and should be ready for some questions regarding these rules.
Science today – we did a few tasks. I wrote down 7 tasks that each students must choose to do and accomplish for the rest of the block. These tasks are needed to finish off the bulletin board for Science. Each student was able to select what task they want to do (i.e. research on the net regarding the history of a suspension bridge, description of the san franciso/Oakland bay bridge, 5 fun facts about this bridge, find pictures and paste them on a colored paper, cut out the bulletin board title). They were able to follow through the directions and I didn’t need to redirect any one of them.
For Math, I worked one-on-one with one of our students. Today he is expected to finish off a multiplication worksheet. Again, just like yesterday he was tempted to use the calculator but this time, he was frustrated when Maria B. had asked him if he was going to use the calculator this worksheet will be his homework. He got frustrated upon hearing this and left the room. I followed him out to the hall and voiced out that he cannot do it. He decided not to be back in class but will just stay in the hall sleeping. He did what he said, and of course all the time he spent out of the class were counted as time off learning.
The day went by smoothly except for this one incident and I am happy that our meeting too went by very well. Btw, I love the way our school director conducts our meeting. I think every staff meeting must be as casual yet professional as she does. **wink**
