Student Teaching -- Remembering What It Was Like To Be A Teen

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Other people shouldn't have to cover their ears.

I've been student teaching for the past 5 weeks in a local high school.  I absolutely love being in the school library everyday.  The kids are great and the library is filled with everything that I love.  Teenagers will be teenagers, however, and we have a very busy library!  When the crowds pick up, so does the noise level.  I just am not much of a yell and scream kind of girl -- unless I have a migraine and it's my own kids not responding to the 10th round of "knock it off guys..."  I prefer a more humorous tack most days. For the most part, I try to place myself in the students' shoes -- after all, we were all teens once.  

In an effort to cull the recent surge in noise level, I created posters and put them up as gentle reminders to our teens to remember their elementary school manners.  My next post will be on the table tops to remind them to clean up after themselves.  My mother used to tell us that "Doris the Maid" was on strike when we weren't pulling our end on cleaning up around the house.  Doris is going to go on strike in our LMC next week.  We'll see if our students start to change their behavior!