Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Not An Easy Day
So the day before spring break the class was taking a math test and I thought it was going to be a nice easy day. Boy was I ever wrong! My cooperating teacher caught this boy, whose about 16 years old, chewing tobacco while he was taking his test! I had no idea what was going on, I thought the kid might have gotten ill. I'm really proud of how my cooperating teacher handled the situation, he never got upset or yelled at the student in front of the class. He simply took the student out in the hall and when they were done talking he calmly walked in and acted like nothing happened. I only knew when the class left and he came back and told me that he caught the kid. I'm really not used to that kind of stuff happening, I'm from the city and hardly anyone chewed tobacco, especially at school. I do have to realize that this is a rural school because my cooperating teacher was not surprised like I was. I would have never caught it, I probably would have thought that the kid was chewing gum.
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I like how your cooperating teacher handled the incident of the boy chewing tobacco. I think that if he would have yelled at the student in front of the class then he would be even more embarrassed. I agree with you that it would be extremely hard to catch someone chewing tobacco in class. How do you know that it isn’t chewing gum? I went to an extremely rural high school and this was a frequent occurrence for a lot of my kids in classrooms. And the saddest part. . . The teachers would hardly ever catch them! I guess it’s just something you have to strictly monitor. Best of luck in the rest of your teaching experience!
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