Monday, January 19, 2009

Communication with Subs

Hi everyone, and hopefully everyone had a great holiday. Today I will be talking about how people communicate towards substitutes in either good or bad ways. Many people take advantages over substitutes because they think that they could get away with it and sometimes they do even though they know they did a bad thing. Substitutes are sometimes soft to students because they don't know them much or tries to avoid any arguments with the students but anyways students could show many rhetoric towards a substitute in either a good way or bad.

There are many different types of subs even good or bad ones but most of what I have seen are good at doing their jobs. Communications between the substitutes aren't that great most of the time because there will be a person who always influence others to do the wrong thing like my class in 6th grade when my class (Ms.Phillip's class if you were in my class) made a substitute cry. I admit I was part of it, I mean everyone had part of it because we took advantage of her. We pretty much didn't pay attention to her because it seemed like she didn't know what she was talking about. This could show bad rhetoric because the students and the substitute didn't have good communication between each other. In the end we were supposed to write an apology letter to the substitute because of our behavior which has to convince the sub that we were truly sorry. I guess that showed a little of good rhetoric because we had to apologize. At the same time, it became harder for us to get substitutes because of what had happened.

Many substitutes are different in every way and most students sees it as an opening for a little bit of freedom because they get to do more than they could with the regular teachers. Unfortunately, some students takes advantage of it too much that it becomes too much. Anyways, hopefully had fun enjoyed reading my little story and probably people from Harvard remembers it.