What do you do...

when one student takes up all of your attention for most of the period?

Today in class the lesson was on how to write a paper. Just the introduction and topic sentences for the body paragraphs mind you. But most of our kids do not know how to write and they need so much help O_O. There are 30 kids in 5th period, and only two of us. But today, it was probably more like one because I spent a lot of time focusing on R. He didn't finish his homework and that set him up for some major struggles with the work we were doing in class today so I was helping him throughout the class so that he wouldn't get more behind. But that meant so many other students suffered because I wasn't able to help them with their papers. On top of that, we had two visitors observing my teacher, again. This is the 6th visitor this week. We're not really sure why there have been so many visitors. All we know is that our kids don't know how to behave, In front of Collins Administration they do, but when they don't know who the adults are, its as if they are invisible. Even the good kids were misbehaving today...talking waaaay too much.

Sigh

And now its time to refocus for the most exciting period of my day...7th period. Here we go.