Asking my students to write anything is like asking them to perform surgery on their own pet while it's alive. You'd think I was the cruelest prof in all the land.
I think the next project will be a podcast, or a video where the students have to teach something in French. Like the verbs Aller à and Venir de.
Truth: I spend 75% of my energy in this class babysitting three students. It's exhausting. Especially since I put so much time and effort into the actual curriculum. They are wearing me out. I never want to teach this level class again. It's not the class that's wear me out, it's the students that don't want to learn, but want to be in my room becuase I'm fun, but don't want to do any of the actual work because that means learning. These students need a completely different environment. I have to allow that I cannot be perfect in every way for every student, and in many ways, that feels like me giving up. Immersion is great. The behavior is not. The work is not. But the learning is there. Now what? I'm too exhausted to synthesize what this all adds up to, so I'll have to come back to it later.
Signing off... one fatiguée mademoiselle.
