Without using last names, which child do you think you influenced most this week? In what way (academic, social, emotional)?

A student in my 7th period influenced me the most this week. At first I thought the student was going to be a problem child and was going to be an interruption all class every class. But he is very intelligent, applies himself to all of his work and really puts forth an effort that I did not expect the first few weeks of school. He has impressed me academically, however I still feel he needs to work on his social and emotional skills. Sometimes he can be...immature in class and if he can master that (which he will) then he will do just fine.

Think about one of your recent presentations. Was there a student who was inattentive? How could you involve that student and draw him/her into the le

There are always students who are inattentive and I always wonder how I can keep them paying attention. At the same time it is hard for me to say anything to them because I always used to sleep in class too. Partially because I was tired but mostly because I wasn't interested in the material being taught (and that's kind of common sense, if something is exciting it will keep my interest and I won't be going to sleep) so to me that is saying that I need to make my classes more interesting so that I don't have sleepers. Often I try to use humor and wit to keep kids interested, I feel like this is fairly successful. They say they enjoy my class a lot more then their other classes so hopefully they are more attentive to what I say then in their other classes.

Classroom interruptions unfortunately occur. Do these affect your instruction? How do you get students back on track?

I feel like it does not affect my teaching that badly. I am sure that I have room for growth and will get better as time goes on, but I feel like it is not a tough issue for me...That being said EFHS has an incredible amount of interruptions. There are multiple interruptions a period. But maybe it will get better as the semester continues.