Day 334 - Mr Nichols 0, Year 9 1

Tuesday March 16th

Tuesday is my favourite day here as I teach one class at 9am and then have nothing until 2pm. This makes for a relaxed Monday night at home as I can reel off on lesson plan and then leave the other two until I get to school.

This morning Year 7 had a quick topic test and they all got 70% or more. This tells me that either I am a brilliant teacher or that the work is too easy for them......

I think I am losing Year 9 as I can't think of anything to get them whooping with excitement about graphs. Maybe I am attempting the impossible but all I have is a whiteboard, some books and a desk top PC. I got them to simulate a "live" set of axes and then use string to "draw" some straight line graphs, thereby attempting to use a more visual and kinaesthetic approach to my teaching. This failed spectacularly as I couldn't get any of them to focus on the task.

If you are dyslexic then the last thing you want to do is draw axes and straight lines and that's precisely what I asked them to do. Hooray for tried and tested methods of teaching