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Saturday, November 18, 2006

Other Classroom Management Plan

I am struggling with the coaching thing. It seems almost pointless to continue coaching. My girls are so unmotivated. I have never seen anything like it. They are lazy and aren’t coachable. Coaching seems to be more frustrating than anything else. I am enjoying getting to know my girls, and I have grown to love each one of them. I have never quit anything and I don’t intend on quitting this. But after a long day of stress and frustration it seems pointless to go to practice and become more frustrated. I just need to figure out a way to get my girls motivated. If anyone has any advice, please feel free to let me know. How do you put your all into both teaching and coaching without being drained? How do you coach and teach?
I have not made very many changes to my classroom management plan. My rules are still the same. I think I should a rule about excessive hagging. Some of my procedures have changed however. My bathroom procedure has changed. It went from “no” to “ ok if it is an emergency.” I also completely got rid of the electronic pencil sharpener. The students now must use hand held pencil sharpeners. My students were spending half of the class period sharpening pencils. The consequences in my plan work decently. I have classroom management problems with the same group of kids each week. My philosophy of classroom management remains the same.

1 Comments:

  • At 10:13 PM, Blogger dd adams said…

    like ben said last week - coaching makes you a bad teacher and teaching makes you a bad coach. its hard to do both, nearly impossible your first year.

    dont be so hard on yourself - all you can do is teach these girls that you wont accept slacking or bad attitudes, just like in the classroom. they may give you a pain in the ass all year long ... but will probably learn these important life lessons from you in the long haul that are so much more important than science or basketball.

    lead by example, be positive, and maybe focus more on the team itself than about winning.

    hang in there stranger. smile ;-)

     

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