I have got to start doing more than one pos a year. the last post I made was towards the end of summer school last years. Well summer school just ended for me this year. It has been a very strange year for all of us. the district I work for offered free online summer school this year. We used the online software package that had been adapted from our Credit Recovery program to fill the last grading period when all the schools closed for Covid-19. Ideally a student would simply work their way through the first half of the online curriculum in the three weeks of summer school and the score would reflect their mastery of first semester skills. I held two Zoom meetings a day to supplement instruction and offer specific tutoring. This was not exactly how it worked out. Makeup Credit English for freshmen is an interesting and challenging experience face to face. These are not the students who are self driven learners. They are all coming to your class having met a major defeat in
I have said and I have heard countless other say things like, "I learn more from my students thanI can ever hope to teach them." Today I had an experience that serves as and example of how students can become the instructor. Teaching summer school is rarely boring. I teach makeup credit English and each time I have had some major revelations about all of my students, past present and future. This year has been no exception. We had just finished reading an article about Anne Frank and our discussion steered it's way into a comparison of hardships today and back then. Obviously none of my students felt they had it worse than Anne Frank, but the conversation took an unexpected turn into a comparison of my generations's hardships to the young people of today. A young lady emphatically stated that because of the internet, social media and personal electronic devices their life was much more complicated and difficult than mine or generations before me was. in