Plus, whenever I really want them to rise to the challenge I can say: "You are in middle school now, so I expect... (insert whatever I want them to do here)." Works every time.
On the flip-side of that, they are new to the middle school scene, so the first few weeks of school you have to take things really slow. You know, give them time to get adjusted to the new routine and all that.
I will never forget my first graded assignment my first semester teaching 7th grade (cough cough, last year). It was a bell work assignment. I just have the kids answer a question on the board at the beginning of class, leaving me free to take roll and get ready for my lesson that day. Looking around, I realized that my kids were not writing as much as I had hoped to answer my daily questions, so I announced that they had to write at least 3 sentences that day. Seems reasonable right?
What I got back was pretty sad. One in particular turned in this:
(*Slaps face) Kids think you only look for the periods and don't actually read what they write, so they draw in periods wherever, nice and dark.
It would be. Like so easy to trick the. Teacher.
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