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It's been a good week. It's been a hard week and I'm exhausted as usual but it's been good too. I had a nice session with my Latin 4 student today (she's really level 3.5, perhaps, because the teacher before me was a bit behind....). Friday's is OUR day.
And what was really nice was that one of the Latin 2's who had for the first month of school seemed angry at me for the class being split, actually said that something I did helped. It was a day for them to work independently of me and they had a reading comprehension worksheet--questions on the story. I made one person magistra hodierna and put her in charge of two things: 1) a photocopy of the story with sentences highlighted and numbered that contained answers to the questions--that is, where to find the answers (but NOT the answers--NOT a translation); and 2) a folded and stapled-closed answer sheet so they could check their work when everyone was done in order to get immediate feedback. (This latter was something I started doing LAST year with the split level students because I felt I wasn't giving them feedback quickly enough.)
The highlighted sheet was a new idea--and it was this that the student liked. She said that some of the people in Latin 2 just didn't need it, of course, but it helped her to focus. And she's the kind that once she starts getting frustrated she shuts down--ya know?
ANYWAY, the point is, I DID SOMETHING THAT WORKED FOR HER.
So I feel good. :)
And now it's time to go watch some tv. It's been a long week and I deserve it!
And what was really nice was that one of the Latin 2's who had for the first month of school seemed angry at me for the class being split, actually said that something I did helped. It was a day for them to work independently of me and they had a reading comprehension worksheet--questions on the story. I made one person magistra hodierna and put her in charge of two things: 1) a photocopy of the story with sentences highlighted and numbered that contained answers to the questions--that is, where to find the answers (but NOT the answers--NOT a translation); and 2) a folded and stapled-closed answer sheet so they could check their work when everyone was done in order to get immediate feedback. (This latter was something I started doing LAST year with the split level students because I felt I wasn't giving them feedback quickly enough.)
The highlighted sheet was a new idea--and it was this that the student liked. She said that some of the people in Latin 2 just didn't need it, of course, but it helped her to focus. And she's the kind that once she starts getting frustrated she shuts down--ya know?
ANYWAY, the point is, I DID SOMETHING THAT WORKED FOR HER.
So I feel good. :)
And now it's time to go watch some tv. It's been a long week and I deserve it!
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