I've been talking to some people who have taught public school in the past.m and they gave me some advice and perspective on my recent frustrations. When discussing my frustration that the students fool around instead of quickly finished their labs, my friend Jackie suggested that the work is inefficient because the students like being there (they would never admit this). I'm coming to realize that many of my students see evening chemistry labs as a socializing opportunity.
Now I need to figure out a way to take advantage of this situation. I'm thinking that Mr. Mullins and I can think of some more interactive labs where the student teams interact with each other. At the very least we could make the labs interactive "games" where the students teams compete for things like the best yield, or the lowest error....
Some interesting notes about my students:
Every week I learn something about them that amazes me:
There are students in my class who:
- wrote a one act play
- attend Saturday morning physics
- have learned speak Japanese
- want to attend the United States Air Force Academy
- manage to "need" to use the eyewash station every class period (well that's not so good... but we're working on that)
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