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I like that answer!
I'll have Olivia draw a picture and make a card.
Alex? Their gift is he won't be in their class next year!
My kids rarely got a teacher I wanted to give a gift to. Most of the good ones were in elementary. It was all downhill after that. Teachers think they are special people with a noble profession but from my experience I didn't see that. Teaching kids is a big responsibility and can be a noble profession but only for a few. The rest, IMHO, it's just another job like everyone else has. The only ones they enjoy teaching and spend time on are the students that excell because thats the most rewarding for them. The ones who need a little bit more 'teaching' are a pain. The longer they teach the meaner they get. The way most treated my kids, it's the teachers who should be giving the gifts.
Alex has been lucky this year. Other than when he was in thrid grade, these are the first teachers he's had that have been following his IEP, and placed him in classes not by his inability to write, but by his strengths and weaknesses, so he is in advanced placement for math and science, and the teacher makes modifications so he can do exams orally and math showing just his answers rather than having him "show all work." (He solves even comlpicated equations in his head). He is in a remedial Language Arts course, and usually I like the younger teachers better because they have fresh ideas and the most recent ones have been trained to work with kids that have different learning styles. Older teachers, I've noticed, tend to group him with the problem kids and never expect much out of him, suspecting that all of his difficulties stem from a lack of discipline at home. This time he has an older teacher who just gets it, and she has been great at working with his other teachers to modify projects so that he can complete them without a whole lot of one on one and and still show is knowledge of the subject matter. He also had a great art teacher. Alex never liked art before, but this guy had been teaching math for 27 years and wanted a change a few years back. I think because he is so analytical, he and Alex really connected, plus his bees make some of the best honey I have ever had. (maybe we can make him some labels for his honey jars, as he has nothing labele - just mason jars full of honey)
Then he has his tech teacher who happens to be his only teacher without a working e-mail account, and the only teacher who does not bother to post assignments or grades on her sharepoint site, and does not bother to communicate. It was a shock to get a report card all A's except for the "F" in technology! Apparently she does not need any jewelry. She wears a necklace of all the thumb drives kids leave behind in class. Alex's is on there somewhere. The only thing she will be getting from me is a complaint to the district.
I like that answer!
I'll have Olivia draw a picture and make a card.
Alex? Their gift is he won't be in their class next year!
My kids rarely got a teacher I wanted to give a gift to. Most of the good ones were in elementary. It was all downhill after that. Teachers think they are special people with a noble profession but from my experience I didn't see that. Teaching kids is a big responsibility and can be a noble profession but only for a few. The rest, IMHO, it's just another job like everyone else has. The only ones they enjoy teaching and spend time on are the students that excell because thats the most rewarding for them. The ones who need a little bit more 'teaching' are a pain. The longer they teach the meaner they get. The way most treated my kids, it's the teachers who should be giving the gifts.
Alex has been lucky this year. Other than when he was in thrid grade, these are the first teachers he's had that have been following his IEP, and placed him in classes not by his inability to write, but by his strengths and weaknesses, so he is in advanced placement for math and science, and the teacher makes modifications so he can do exams orally and math showing just his answers rather than having him "show all work." (He solves even comlpicated equations in his head). He is in a remedial Language Arts course, and usually I like the younger teachers better because they have fresh ideas and the most recent ones have been trained to work with kids that have different learning styles. Older teachers, I've noticed, tend to group him with the problem kids and never expect much out of him, suspecting that all of his difficulties stem from a lack of discipline at home. This time he has an older teacher who just gets it, and she has been great at working with his other teachers to modify projects so that he can complete them without a whole lot of one on one and and still show is knowledge of the subject matter. He also had a great art teacher. Alex never liked art before, but this guy had been teaching math for 27 years and wanted a change a few years back. I think because he is so analytical, he and Alex really connected, plus his bees make some of the best honey I have ever had. (maybe we can make him some labels for his honey jars, as he has nothing labele - just mason jars full of honey)
Then he has his tech teacher who happens to be his only teacher without a working e-mail account, and the only teacher who does not bother to post assignments or grades on her sharepoint site, and does not bother to communicate. It was a shock to get a report card all A's except for the "F" in technology! Apparently she does not need any jewelry. She wears a necklace of all the thumb drives kids leave behind in class. Alex's is on there somewhere. The only thing she will be getting from me is a complaint to the district.
