OMG! My students are killing me today! They are so resistant to thinking and it pisses me off! If something is event remotely hard or challenging, their brains turn off. They have been so conditioned to wait for the right answer that they have forgotten (or never learned) how to think on their own.
I am having a really hard time dealing with the attitude of 16 year olds today. I knew going into teaching that I would be dealing with attitude on a daily basis, but I really didn’t expect it to be this bad. Today is especially bad. I want to punish them all with a super duper a hard test and make them all fail, but I know that ts not the right answer.
I have been doing a two day lesson about Global Warming using the video The 11th Hour. I really thought that this would be a good lesson that would provoke thought, debate and even action. Boy was I wrong. I had the kids answer a question that had no right or wrong answer. This was SUCH a hard task for them. They want everything to have one right answer – which hardly anything does!
