I am slowly learning that I have to engage my students all the time. If I don't, they do things like tie their shoe laces together during class. And then I have to take my scissors and cut them apart because time and attentions are at stake.
Yes, I cut my student's shoe lace. And then I tied it back together again. I don't feel bad. Actually, I felt angry, angry at myself for putting two such students next to one another and at them for acting like elementary students. Whoever thinks immaturity is endearing, try enduring it 6 hours a day, 5 days a week.
As much as I would like to cut myself off from them at times, I am finding more and more how tied to them I am. It isn't a negative tie - it's just a connection that drains me 4 days out of 5 and makes me wonder how on earth I am going to make it to Christmas break.
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