new teacher pressures - part 2 (of 3)
So. Many. Questions. On top of questioning whether or not I should even be a teacher ( Part 1 ), I have a million and one questions concerning the curriculum and pedagogy of the job. Round 1 of questions reached its capacity after the first semester of teaching. I spent most of my Christmas break pondering the following: How do I get students to take more responsibility for themselves, their actions, and the actions of those around them? How can I get students to keep up with papers? (I do not, nor do they, have the luxury of classroom computers, so the papers stay.) How can I manage the material and instruction that absent students miss? How do I put the responsibility of absences on them? How can I minimize the endless printing and wasted paper? How can I more effectively distribute and collect papers? How can I help students who miss entire units of instruction? How can I differentiate between learning abilities? Can handouts be structured to accommodate? How ...