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Date: July 27th, 2007

Student-teaching Day 24

They didn’t read. Somehow I expected it… *sigh*

Not everyone submitted their ballad projects either. Some said they would submit theirs later. Some asked if they could submit on Monday. Of course I said no at first. I said it should be submitted in class, but then… poor kids. I told them I would accept papers until 3pm without deduction. They said they had a class at that time. I told them that just because I gave a 3pm deadline, it didn’t mean that they should submit it at that time. It wasn’t a submission time. It was a deadline.

Some of them submitted during lunch time. Thankfully no one passed theirs after 3pm even if I was still in school until 4.

I wrapped up Canterbury Tales and introduced problems in definitions.

Before I gave the test in Canterbury Tales and after I collected the ballads, I asked them to write on a quarter sheet of paper what they thought my strengths and weaknesses were so far (per Ma’am’s instructions).

I told them to be honest so I know what to improve. I expected pretty bad comments, but it wasn’t really that bad. Most of them said the same thing. I’m nice. I’m TOO nice. I’m cute (What the heck?). Some Most didn’t write anything negative for me which kind of made me sad and happy at the same time. Sad because I don’t think they were even paying attention to notice that I’m not that good at explaining stuff to them. Happy because I know I’m not good at handling negative criticism.

Some of those who DID write something negative, they just said that I lacked strictness, and needed to discipline them more, and that my voice wasn’t loud enough.

My voice not loud enough? Seriously? Most of the time I feel like I have to level my voice so it doesn’t reach the other classes.

Blah to them.

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