I am, ever so slowly but surely, starting to enjoy my time here.
I will have to say though, that one student is really turning into quite the piece of work. He bums around all class, and then when he's actually asked to do something (heaven forbid), he finds some menial, often non-existent, reason to blame his classmates. It's frustrating to say the least. I've had to solve problems through asking questions and addressing issues through different means than I would probably with other students (I say this because the other student usually will willingly go forth with the activity at hand). I suppose I could say he has a feigned disability because he pretends he doesn't know what is going on, and doesn't do anything, but on the flip side, he is always, always, always talking and always has to have the right answer to the question. In other words, he likes to be the center of attention, but when it comes down to actually doing work, he doesn't want anything to do with it. The challenge then comes in properly motivating this student to work on activities, either on his own or with others, and act appropriately when he is working with a group of other students. The rest of the class, for the most part, is doing fine in regards to working on things. He does, however, pull down one or two students into his apparent disinterest in the current activity, and this often makes things more difficult, but I do my best to take it in stride and carry on.
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