3rd Semester Blog # 5

I fully expect the classroom to experience a sudden burst of anticipatory energy before school leaves for winter break. The key is to always have the classroom expectations enforced and have lessons that engage students. The end of the class will mostly consist of reteaching, relearning, retesting, and enrichment. My high school suffers from a very high absence problem with students so any chance available to teach must be used. My plan is to have students organized in groups by unit that needs to be relearned. The school allows students to retest any exam at least once so I make students below a 70% retake exams for better scores. Communicating with parents is rare and I often only speak to them if a student is having a problem. As for positive incentive, I usually distribute snacks or candy if students behave and average more than an 80% on the final.