My frustrations rose today as I have continued to realize
how dependent a lot of my students are on me as a teacher to just feed them the
answers. Today the game plan was to read a passage of Macbeth out loud as a
class and then discuss it as a class. However, after I finally got volunteers
to read aloud it was tooth and nails getting students to actually participate
in the discussion. I would either have one student answering all of the
questions or they were completely fine just sitting there and listening to
crickets chirp. The group discussion skill is something that students need to
learn, however, I was not prepared to teach this skill for this lesson and
instead just wanted to utilize the skill. While I would still like to teach my
juniors and seniors this skill, I am going to ensure in the future that when I
have freshman that I teach this skill from day one. After school I discussed
with Dena other options since I did not feel comfortable doing another day of
group discussion.
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