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Today the students were reading from Guys Write for Guys Read.  The stories are captivating.  Since I had already explained the written responses that needed to be completed, students had no need for me.  I realize this, motivated learners, is a good thing, but I was completely bored.  This is the second day of this assignment, and the journals are all graded.  My last class needed me least of any class, and I was walking around the room with nothing to do.  When I'm bored, I tend to be distracting to others, and I was a bit distracting to the last class.  Of course I understood this, so I tried to explain that I was bored.  They didn't care and really wanted me to leave them alone, so they could read.  One student suggested I look up funny cat videos online.  I found this video (via Huffington Post?) and shared it with the class before I tried to occupy myself. 



Yeah, they didn't think it was that funny either.  I need a better plan for tomorrow since it is the last day of this activity.

Comments

Indiana Rock on a California Roll said…
I think it's a definite mark of a good teacher to prefer getting a bit into everyone's business over "funny" cat videos. I like videos of babies talking to each other the best.
6:45 PM
LH said…
That's a v. Amazing cat.
8:42 PM
dw said…
I think it's really funny that you were distracting your students because you were bored. It sounds like something I would do, but that's got to be quite a role reversal in teacher/student interactions. It's also funny that your students told you to go surf the internet so they could get their work done. It's got to be almost Winter Break for you though, right? Hang in there!
9:31 PM
KC said…
I've done the roaming distracting thing, too. It's hard when they're all, like, busy without you. Especially in the computer lab.

Like the cat photo. Stay strong.
9:37 PM
jdoc said…
At first I thought that cat was trying to claw the child but I was happy to see he was comforting him.
10:23 AM
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