Fires: Chapter 9 - When Things Go Wrong

This chapter explained not only how students can get discouraged and give up but how teachers can as well. Students may start skipping school for different reasons. They may get some bad grades and just give up all together or they don't feel comfortable at school. No matter what the reason is teachers should recognize a students absences then find out why and try to help. Also as a teacher, even if a student is getting good grades it should not be okay for them to miss school all the time. Kids know they need to learn, and teachers responsibility is to make sure that this learning occurs within school as well. Teachers may want to give us as well, but there are things they can do within the classroom to avoid this. Mainly a teacher needs to focus on teaching and their goals, and not let a frustrating student or confrontation consume them.

I have an experience that I may have let bother me a little too much the other day when I was at Mt. Blue Middle School. One girl was sitting at the very front of the room and another in the way back, I quickly found out there was a reason to this. The girl in the front was turned sideways in her chair and constantly looking at the girl in the back (who I was sitting directly behind). They would make faces to each other and laugh all while the teacher was up front. The teacher didn't seem to notice, but I sure did and it was driving me nuts. I didn't want to say anything and interrupt class and I didn't feel comfortable telling student what to do with their teacher right there. So all class I let that get me very angry, so by the end of class I wasn't very happy and neither was I when I left school, I guess it just put me in a bad mood. I shouldn't have let a situation like that frustrate me so much, but I did, and in the future I will try to make a situation like that better without letting it make me mad.