Ms. Shuer's success

Out of all the things that I have done this year, I have had two small successes: one is relationships with certain students and the other is more content-related.

First, the relationships. Several of my students needed to interview someone that they thought was a leader for their ESL class, and I had aboud 10 students choose to interview me. The fact that they saw me as a leader at the school was very touching, considering I feel like I am running around like a chicken with my head cut off. It made me realize that at least some of my students look up to me as an authority figure.

Second, the math. While many of my students still struggle with solving equations and finding the slope of a line, most of them now have a solid understanding of basic math ideas that they did not understand before. Negative numbers, number lines, and decimals were all foreign concepts to my students, and I am proud that when I now ask for the answer of -3 + 9, most of my students can conceptualize that the answer is 6. Considering that my students should be fall along in algebra by now, this certainly qualifies as a small success.