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Friday, 07 October 2005, 09:00 AM


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On the contrary, I found it more rewarding and stimulating teaching students like Erenda.  Even when doing things like this it shows that she is thinking and had real emotions.  To much of the time we have students who behave like tape recorders, they memorize everything but understand nothing; or worse the sort that hear nothing and seem to think nothing; or those who was to be stupid so the act that way on purpose.

One student would refuse to learn computations with positive and negative numbers, he claimed the he was too stupid to understand that information.  The first day no luck. The second I tired to reintroduce him to the number line again no luck, so I urned the lesson in its side.  I start a converstation about current events, which lead to talking about the sever weather that was in the news.  He was confused about my not talking about lesson.  I told him that I was tiered of the lesson and wanted to take a break, that was true.  Then the conersation shifted to talking about the how hot or cold it was here and there.  I made an intentional computational error reguarding temperture, he corrected me.  I then asked him various questions about the weather that required him to do computations to provide me wit the answer.  The questions were problems from the assignement rephrased as temprature above and below zero.  He never made one error.  When I told him that he had completed the assignment with a score of 100% he  appeared to forget how to compute tempratures.

On the other hand we had a student who was very intelligent so was transfered to our school, but she had been picked on sho much in the regular schools that she had a very bad personality.  When given assignments where sho could select a topic, she did similar to what Erenda is describing.  Once she learned that in that school, intelligence was respected  and not rediculed, and her talents were appreciated.  She became one of the star students of the school.


Pangor