Thursday, September 30, 2010

Eng 099 Lab, Week II


One of the reasons I decided I want to go into Adult Education instead of K-12 was that I truly enjoy teaching and hate the prospect of having to first discipline the kids constantly to be able to get two words of teaching out. Here I am now in a college class, instructing the one-hour weekly "labs" of the basic English level at LaGuardia Community College Writing Center, and these students cannot get past interrupting the class and having side-conversations with classmates long enough to just do the work they are asked to do! I understand, these students are mostly freshman, fresh out of high school, but I am becoming very frustrated with these kids who are not willing to grow up, so to speak.

I'm trying to be helpful and even tell them listen, if you don't want to do the work here and would rather read and write your assignments at home, that's fine. Just stop making so much noise by talking amongst yourselves and laughing and so disrupting other students who are trying to get real work done here! Honestly, this just discouraged me a tad bit today. I don't know; maybe my frustration comes from my most recent sleep-deprevation and other personal troubles I've had in the past 10 hours just today!

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  1. ElOctober 5, 2010 at 12:19 PM

    I hear you Mahla. I sometimes think there should be a new definition for the word "adult". You sometime see or hear so unexpected things by adults which a "kid" wouldn't do!! Who are we to blame? The sad part of it is that we can't change adults as that's how their personality has been carved and shaped! All I do (which may help you too) is ignoring! If you asked them to cooperate and still you think they can't act like adults, let them be. If they're intelligent enough, your ignorance will PROBABLY make them feel they're on the wrong path and try to correct themselves. By the way, as you said it can be sleep-deprivation too. As you know I'm experiencing that too and it sometimes makes me feel I'm not myself!

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