Day 14-
I know how important hands on lessons are for students. Believe me, I do. I just there was a way to make them less stressful. I think the best thing we can do is to front load them like crazy. What kind of happened in this class, which connected really well to practicum, is we had to wait for a long time to get kids to respond. I see this as a symptom of two things: 1. Language anxiety and 2. Social anxiety. It's frustrating to watch. I'm a strong believer in solidarity, so I stood with my DT. What she did made sense at the time, but I wonder what we could have done differently to go faster. We talked about cold calling in practicum, but for my kids, that may be too stressful, or it may be the push they need to speak up. There's just so many different language levels. Needless to say, I was tired at the end of the day.
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