It is funny I just re-read my first post and it is as if I didn't learn anything. Maybe next time...
I have been teaching a lot in my internship which has been fun because those students are well behaved and seem interested in what we are doing. Subbing on the other hand is pretty rough. Students do not want to learn and the teachers leave the worst lessons, usually worksheets. So everyone, including the regular teacher, knows that today is a wasted lesson.
There are two situations I didn't handle well.
Two weeks ago, at my internship, a student turned in a writing assignment. She wrote the first sentence. Then every other sentence was copied and pasted from sparknotes.com. I was annoyed, and I left a comment that pretty much said, "Good job copying and pasting from spark notes." Then when I confronted her. I was not understanding. It is more clear to me now that I should have been more understanding. Why didn't I ask her if she need extra help? Or why she thought it was necessary to copy her whole letter? I get to make it up to her and myself tomorrow. I really wanted to call the school last Friday and apologize to her but I couldn't remember her name.
The last time I subbed was a 5th grade math class. It was miserable, and the last period got me good. The teacher left me about five minutes of work to last 30 minutes. These two punks, they didn't do anything the whole class besides fight with eachoth and push my buttons. It worked and I kept them after class and left bad comments for their teacher.
I don't know why I took this so personal. I was worse than both of them when I was a fifth grader. I should've had something fun prepared to do but I didn't. I knew their activity was crap, and that they would be goofing off in no time.
Peace, love, and do good things
Mr. Gomes
