Lesson For Us All

Lesson Plans, Lesson Plans, Lesson Plans. Thats what we covered this week. We broke them down and covered what it was that we should cover and then what each part of the papers given to us with the outcome, assessment, questions, and conclusions. Now that I have lead you away from my point we will begin the actual blog. In class while Heath was talking to us, he covered a topic. That topic basically was keeping everyone focused on the class while in class, keep the students from day dreaming, or just sitting there not paying attention. Now I had gone and talked to Heath and Allie on Thursday because I had to take off a little earlier than everybody and wanted to double check on some things. While I was there we got to talking a little more about this. Now in class it was apparent that we were not completely there, which is not necessarily a bad thing as long as we are still there and active but I know for my case I was randomly going in and out of class with my head. Now while talking to Allie and Heath Thursday we got to talking about how the future freshman are going to take this class. We were wondering what their attitude was going to be. Now for my perspective I told them that we are going to have students that appreciate this class and then others that are just there because they were given some money. When we got to talking about how the students pay attention I brought up this point, for our class we are here because we wanted to be, we applied for this and we are here to get something out of it, and even after that we still are not fully aware in class. Now for them to fully see my point I talked about how I viewed the class when I was a freshman. I was not the student who viewed the class as useful or worth my time other than I was here for the money, now after a while I got a talking to from the lady in charge (Debra :0 ). I know who would have thought. However see talked to me and my view turned for the second half of the semester but it showed them that even for us it is hard to stay focused and we have chosen this and now we have to try to keep students (almost typed kids in) that the Hixson program chose to be here to do the same thing. So at this point I do not have a solution other than trying to connect and prove to the students so as to help them get the most out of the class but otherwise I am clueless on what we should do. So a thought for all if any ideas post a comment or bring it up in class