Eavesdropping Comment for Thought...

I'm sitting here, in Whitman Commons, listening to a group of education majors talk about their teaching experiences. One girl admits to her classmates, "Oh, the seventh graders today. I don't think I want to teach seventh grade. I was up there today, and you could just tell that all they wanted was to be anywhere but where they were. I don't want to teach a class where they don't want to be there, and not be interested. It's not fun for them, and it's not fun for me." Now that I cracked a smile at. Please, show me a grade (in the secondary curriculum) where students are bright-eyed, and enthusiastic about being at school each day. Or, better yet, take a look at your lesson and figure out: What is it that you're doing (or not doing) that's making their eyes glaze over? This was my initial reaction to her comment, and I think anyone would be hard-pressed to find an ideal class that wants to be there every single day.