Thursday, April 18, 2013

My students made me want to cry.

In my first year teaching, the thing that made me want to cry the most was the knowledge that the teacher they would have in five years would be so much better than the teacher I was then.
Three years later, I feel like I'm in that same place. Today, we were doing review for our state test. This was the question: 

As we were breaking it down, I asked them to compare  inertia and mass. In a Pre-AP physics class, not one student could do this. Not one. 

Wouldn't you cry, too?

Of course, my next question is - short term and long term - how to fix this. 

What would you do? Have you been here, too?  

Ironically, I leave you with this:

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