So here's my dilemma. I'm a 7th grade social studies teacher. I hate Chromebooks.

So here's my dilemma. I'm a 7th grade social studies teacher. I hate Chromebooks. Actually, part of me WANTS to love putting work on Google Classroom because it's so easy not to have to print stuff and to have all my student work organized and filed away for me. But the Chromebooks have major issues. For one thing, I only have 45 minutes per period, so the 3 minutes that it takes to distribute Chromebooks and the 5 minutes that it takes to put them away properly is a HUGE time sink. To make matters worse, our students constantly PLUCK THEY KEYS and many of the keyboards are essentially unusable. These damn kids. So just print things, right? I like to make my students actually read stuff. But I teach 125 students every day. If I want them to do real reading, this often requires printing out multiple pages of material per student, along with any worksheets that might go with the reading. Oh, and my school does not give us paper whenever we want, instead we have to request things get printed by the office staff the day before. So just use some sort of book, right? My school provides two different workbooks, one that is too basic and doesn't count as "rigorous" work and another book that is way above their heads (primary sources they can't follow at all, etc.) - mostly working with kids who are below grade level. And 1/3rd of my students don't speak any English at all (a mix of Mandarin, Spanish, and other languages). How do I teach these kids you ask? Ha, funny question. But just to add to the problem of books, I teach in 9 different rooms. There is no single class I have in which we meet in the same room more than twice a week. These rooms are also on different floors of the school, so I can't simply leave books in the room for them. So tell kids to keep a book in their backpack? I can do this even though the kids will hate me for forcing them to carry the extra weight, but the problem is that there will always be a solid 20+% of students who simply won't do this, or so they forgot it. Then I have behavioral challenges for kids who have no work to do. What would you do in this situation? submitted by /u/EnlightenedBulbasaur [link] [comments]