Friday, Friday, Friday!!! It's FRIDAY!!! I've officially made it to the end of the week. I can't believe it's Friday already... weird. Alright, end of excited college student ramblings about the obvious day of the week.

I'm really striving to find more reasons to get my students to actively write in their journals when they are required to do so for the class -- such as in my Welding and Fabrication class. We have the last 7 minutes of every class to do journaling. But the problem happens when students are not motivated to write anything. And that comes because the topic of journaling is disinteresting. We have tried to remedy this by asking them more engaging questions about welding in history, etc, but it's still difficult to get them to write anything.

Students in my welding and fabrication class tend towards the air of believing that I’m not here for official, professional reasons, or that I am a soft person when it comes to keeping them on track – even when it requires discipline. They could not have been more disappointed that I am not all kicks and giggles when several were docked points on their daily time cards for not doing any work in the shop for a period of time.