We are back to regular schedule and it feels so different. It was a nice change to go straight into teaching instead of having to sit outside for two hours while the students tested.
The first class went over nutrition and then I had them have the extra time to do circuit training. Nothing spectacular happened. However, the students did have homework that was due today. I only had 3 students turn theirs in. I was so frustrated and upset that these students still don’t want to do their homework. They know that it is something I grade them on and is a part of the unit, but they still don’t do it. I told them that I expected all of them to do it, but they still don’t turn it in. This profession is just so stressful when it comes to working with the students, but yet it’s so rewarding when the students finally learn something or they accomplish a task that I set for them.
The second class was the best class all semester long. We combined the boys and the girls’ honors class and I did my two step lesson again. However, this time I told the girls that since they will have to teach their classmates how to dance to their dance, this would be good practice for them. I guess the whole point of bringing them together was to teach them (both boys and girls) how to be social and mature enough to be partners with the opposite sex. I told the kids that just because someone comes up and asks you to dance doesn’t mean that they like you or that you have to like them, they just want to dance. I think they all really liked it. We ended the class with something that was a little more upbeat and more relatable to the students. We finished with the Cha-Cha slide and the Cupid shuffle.
The third class also did the pulse logs. It was really nice to do it with this class because I had a whole hour to complete this task. That means that the students got to do a lot of different exercises to where they could see how their heart rate changes. They didn’t do too badly with it. I had to even write up a boy in the class because he just wouldn’t sit down or even listen for that matter. I had given him like 3 warnings before I said “that’s it, just go do a lap.” I then kindly reminded him of the rules and consequences that the class had made during our co-creation of our environment.
Today was just another general day. There are more and more days like this now that everything is winding down. I can’t believe that it is almost over. I feel like I just got started. I am upset too because I don’t think that I did everything I could have when it comes to teachings. There have been some really really stressful times in which it would have just been easier to quit than continue on, but then I think about all the rewarding times and they definitely outweigh the bad.
Until tomorrow!
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