Cave Of Cool Update

I have to tell you that despite all my anxiety (which I realize is just another ghost that I live with) I have been killing it at the GED school. The only thing that is keeping ANYONE from succeeding after my tutelage is not showing up and I am getting annoyed at the ones who CAN succeed who haven't been showing up. I am annoyed that they aren't there for me to help them. To teach them the math - step by step, inch by inch. I hate that I have to take them from where they are at and almost teach each one individually. Well they have broken up into three groups, strong, medium and weak and I have to juggle them all and try to keep them asking questions of things they don't understand.

Does that make any sense?

I also have 3 ladies that I have been tutoring in Math for the past month. We started with 1+1 because they had all failed their math portions of the GED test previously and needed my help. Starting from the beginning is my process. Three more sessions with them then I have to develop ESL (English as a second language) stuff to help about 5 guys who need extra help with the reading and writing portions of the test which, besides the math, is ALL the rest of the tests.

That will be a huge challenge but I have some Batman Adventures and Superman Adventures comic books and other lower level English stuff to help fill in some of the gaps. Maybe I can fill in enough to give them a fighting chance at the test. Either way they WILL learn something that they can take into the next time if they have to re-write portions of the test.

So that is my process. I know, not as interesting as most things I post but I just got home from class and there is no one here to vent to, so I vent to y'all. Today was class 16 of 40. I feel like I am hitting my groove. Keep a good thought out for me and my students.