Monday, November 28, 2016
The Short Week Last Week
Last week was a two day week as I'm sure everyone else had as well. In my classroom we had a substitute on Tuesday. Since it was a short week, it was already pretty crazy but adding a substitute teacher made things pretty chaotic. Students who don't typically cause trouble were acting out. Many students come from less than ideal households making them anxious about weekends and especially anxious about long breaks. I think the behavior of many students stemmed from this anxiety. There were points in the morning where we had only three students in the room. The rest of the students were in the special education room or in what is called the "tool room." Has anyone else noticed anxiety in some of the students on Friday or last Tuesday?
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I'm sure that is really hard for you to see. I have noticed in my classroom that some students come from chaotic households as well. When there was early release because of the snow storm two weeks ago, a lot of the students would look around in a panic and say, "My mom is always late," or "Make sure you call my mom, she might forget." Kind of hard to hear because I'm sure their mom has been late or forgotten them before.
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