Tips for Inclusion Course: Feel Like I'm Losing Control
Hello all,
I'm in my second year teaching and have a class of 15 that is completely cotaught (13 have IEP and 2 are on a behavioral pathway program). The class is very hard to manage. I'm looking for some help/guidance on the following topics:
There are about 5 students who will always try to derail the lesson regardless of if it's direct instruction, partner work, or group work. I've tried to split up groups, but it always leads to "I don't wanna work with this person!". I've made contact home for people who outright refuse to work with other individuals.
Some students are just really low level in math, not knowing division and multiplication are represented differently symbolically. This is a Junior level cinceptual physics course... On the other side I have kids (2/14) that finish up VERY early and have a 100% in the class and start to become disruptive when they're done.
Some kids (4) are chronically absent, last year having 30-40 absences... what do you do about this?
The majority of the kids (11/15) will likely pass if everything stays constant [which it won't] and (9/15) kids are almost always well behaved.