I should be charged with neglect

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 It's been so long since I posted here. 

This semester has not been good. I started out with such high hopes and grand visions and it all fell to sh*t by November. For the last few weeks I have been in a foul mood and have not been wanting to even go to school. I have made huge mistakes that affected everyone's grades and it's all because my heart just has not been in it. 

After a whole lot of reflection, I realized that while I had all these grandious plans and expectations, the students did not. I thought that I if I did X,Y, and Z all the students would fall in line and class would be amazing. It didn't happen. So much of my foul mood was due to the fact that I was working my butt off to try and make things work and the students were hardly working. That is going to change. I've already decided that I'm going to move a little bit away from the modeling structure. A little bit. I'm going to do more lecture and just explain things to them. I'm going to require lab reports for all labs. And instead of the summative tasks I'm going to give tests and quizzes. Lots and lots of tests and quizzes. I'm also going to work bellwork into my routine. I'm going to make it worth a few points every day and there will be a time limit on it. I'm trying to cut down on the talking and screwing around at the beginning of class. Maybe bellwork will be part of the citizenship grade. I can do that can't I? 

Today is the next to last day of school. I am so, so ready for this break. I can't wait. Okay, I'm done. I just wanted to write the above and I did so now I'm out. 

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