Sunday, February 15, 2009
Geometry Tests!
As you all know I teach special education math to students who are a few years behind in school, so typically they struggle when faced with grade level work. I gave a test to my eighth grade class this week on finding Area, Volume, and Surface Area of given figures. It is a hard task for even the regular educations students, so I was not expecting much from my class. I really just wanted them to get the idea of what area and volume are used for, and to become some what familiar with the formulas. Test day was Tuesday and it was a really bad day for me, I wasn't feeling well, and it seemed like every thing was going wrong, until I graded the tests. I have 10 students in my class and when I finished grading, there were 6 A's, 3 C's, and 1 D. I have never been so proud of my students and myself! I think after three years of teaching I might have figured out how to bridge the gap for my kiddo's, at least for this concept!
Sunday, February 8, 2009
Wet Erase Markers
Okay, So I have a really funny teacher tale that had me laughing for a good five minutes during class. Just a disclaimer that all names other than my own have been changed for the privacy of my silly students.
It all started with me giving Stan a new notebook for warm-ups. He asked to barrow a marker to write his name on the notebook, but he grabbed one of my wet-erase, vis a vi, markers. I told him he'd have to re-write his name using another marker because that one will wipe off. A girl who was sitting close by asked me if the marker was really wet-erase, so I showed them both by spraying the notebook with water and wiping it clean. Stan shrugged and grabbed a sharpie marker off my cart and re-wrote his name on the notebook. The girl Daisy asked to see the vis a vi marker and I handed it to her without even thinking twice about it. The next thing I know she is writing her name on a piece of paper with the marker. I asked her not to write anything else on the paper with the marker, because it was not for paper. While I was giving her this instruction she picked up my spray bottle and doused her paper with water. Then she began to wipe it with a paper towel. I looked at her dumbfounded and ask what she was doing. "You said it was wet-erase, and it worked on his notebook!" I was laughing so hard that it took me a few min. to explain to Daisy that the wet-erase only worked on glossy surfaces like glass and the cover of the notebook. Daisy is not a blond, but she has several blond moments like this one. I'm sure she will be a frequent visitor to my blogs!
It all started with me giving Stan a new notebook for warm-ups. He asked to barrow a marker to write his name on the notebook, but he grabbed one of my wet-erase, vis a vi, markers. I told him he'd have to re-write his name using another marker because that one will wipe off. A girl who was sitting close by asked me if the marker was really wet-erase, so I showed them both by spraying the notebook with water and wiping it clean. Stan shrugged and grabbed a sharpie marker off my cart and re-wrote his name on the notebook. The girl Daisy asked to see the vis a vi marker and I handed it to her without even thinking twice about it. The next thing I know she is writing her name on a piece of paper with the marker. I asked her not to write anything else on the paper with the marker, because it was not for paper. While I was giving her this instruction she picked up my spray bottle and doused her paper with water. Then she began to wipe it with a paper towel. I looked at her dumbfounded and ask what she was doing. "You said it was wet-erase, and it worked on his notebook!" I was laughing so hard that it took me a few min. to explain to Daisy that the wet-erase only worked on glossy surfaces like glass and the cover of the notebook. Daisy is not a blond, but she has several blond moments like this one. I'm sure she will be a frequent visitor to my blogs!
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