The past few weeks of me substituting I have learned several different things. Kids while there are differences from when I was younger, there are similarities. But thats not one of the biggest things I am learning. I am learning to make myself known. Someone who is soft spoken like I am can barely be heard among the high school, or middle school chatter. Or when I did talk, I wasn’t heard. That is changing.
I am learning how to speak up and speak out. While I am still soft spoken, students at least acknowledge they heard me. Whether or not they follow the instructions I give them is another matter. Students are students and when they see a substitue we all know what is going through their minds….”no work” or “free period” kind of thing. A lot of them don’t even respond when I take roll, until I began telling them that they don’t answer they are marked absent.
So all it took for me to speak out and be heard is to become a substitute teacher and somewhat yell at kids all day. Although its kind of fun when kids don’t think I mean what I say until it happens, then they freak out lol. :D
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