What do you do when you have seventh graders who can barely read at a kindergarten level?
What do you do when your students are so low level, they can't even copy letters off a board?
What do you do when you have a student who writes about the memory of his mother beating him with a stick after he skipped school one day?
...I'm not really sure this is what I thought I was signing up for...
Are these the EQs for the contact issues? If so, we were assigned to legal rights and I think a couple of these could work (especially the last one). To add to the list:
ReplyDelete1. What are the legal rights teachers have?
2. How do legal rights affect teaching?
Ummmm.... These are actually just me venting about issues that are happening in my classroom....
ReplyDeleteHaha gotcha! Sorry - I thought they could work for our contact issue too! :)
ReplyDeleteJust to help you think this through a little, I believe it is standard to let the guidance counselor know if students write about how his or her mom beat them with a stick because they skipped school. Even though it may seem like a memory, maybe it still happens.
As for the reading level, I don't really have a good idea, but I always wonder how many have a learning disability that has not been diagnosed.