weekly response

I finally finished my field observations yesterday.

The topic about motivation really stirred up my mind. Sitting in the classroom yesterday really helped me see how much kids lack motivation. The teacher even asked a student "what motivates you? because the kid was close to having an F in the class. When asked the student just stared at the teacher. Once the teacher asked "are you just being lazy? because i dont think your dumb" the student nodded YES. I also see this at the school that i work at. The kids that have F's are mostly just lazy. Ive sat with a few ONe on ONe and they manage to do their work. They are very intelligent but just need someone sitting next to them telling them to do their work every 5minutes.

The teacher that Im observing bases his lectures on the California Standards. The standards is the first thing that he announces in every single period. The pages that we read on the California standard on thursday also created some questions for me. Why do they state that a person who is behind in reading has a very lil chance of ever catching up? i was one of those kids, and personally i think i did i great job : )