Right now I am trying to teach a group of teenagers how to blog. [Unfortunately my reasons for doing so are due to the pressures of a national hierarchical system whose messages and intentions are ridden with miscommunications, that by the time they reach me, i have two and a half weeks to complete 8 different projects with these teens...including the blog...and did i mention teenagers these days have NO MOTIVATION!??!?!?!]
I thought it would be easy. It sounded simple. For me, to be expected to write about what I'm thinking/making/looking at seems very self-explanatory and open-ended.
HOWEVER... when dealing with adolescents/young adults who have learning disorders on top of other issues that affect those who live in poverty..such as being homeless as several are.. something that seemed so basic, suddenly become difficult. Nearly impossible. Like I said, no motivation. Plus their critical thinking skills are so low that the simple task of writing a couple sentences on what they think about some topic takes them f o r e v e r.
I don't know what the point of THIS blog entry of mine is... Seems like nothing more than vent session... Yet I feel like there is an issue, much larger than myself & these teens, of which I cannot name yet. (oh the joys of worrying about work outside of work hours) I guess it irritates me that people in high positions of that national system really do not understand what goes on in the lower levels. I guess that's part of the "big picture/issue" that I am trying to describe, without going into too much detail and bashing my employers...
But I suppose that's just the story of humanity right?
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