Teaching for America in the Lou

I'm teaching special education in the English department at Gateway Tech High School. On average, my students are reading at a 3rd grade level - so I definitely have my work cut out for me. My goal is to increase the reading level by an average of 2 years by the end of the school year. I also plan to have my students create a portfolio that showcases their strengths and levels of self-understanding and self-appreciation. Wish me luck!!! :)

Tuesday, October 03, 2006

"Feel Good" Activity

The weather is now again in the 90s here, and it's making the kids a little cranky and/or sleepy. So today I decided to do the activity where each person writes an anonymous "nice" note to each of their classmates. I participated in the activity as well, and these were some of my favorites:

"is fine, smart, funny, nice, brite, yung, intellgent, will with people, who can let us listen to music"

"she alway respect to me, alway help with me, she is beauiful women, she is my teacher, from Sharday W."

"she alway respect me, she teach me suff that I didn't no, she smart, funny, friendly, lovable an beauiful women from: Tashayla" (clearly Sharday and Tashayla sit next to each other haha)

"she's an incredible teacher because she cares so much about us an our learning if i had one wish i would wish for a billion more ms borcherts thank you for teaching me what i know so far. p.s. Jarrett Johnson"

"I like your dress"

"can dress, nice teacher, down, flamin cheetos, damn"

"get an F for her teaching. I'm just playin. she a good teacher and helpful. dg"

"she is the best teacher i here now"

"she cool she hot"

WOW! Definitely pulling these out on a bad day :)

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