Maybe you should try and find a way to engage the teachers as well.  Some
sort of activity or game that they will also be graded on at the end of your
program may help a little!  I can see why that would bother you, they would
be the first to call down a student doing the exact same thing.  Hope this
helps!

Brian

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N.C. Transportation Museum
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lynne" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2004 1:31 PM
Subject: Tough audience


>    If I had not had this happen twice before I would have ignored it but I
> am a little concerned about what seems to be a rather usual occurence
during
> our tiny historical society's outreach programs and I would like to ask
for
> suggestions ... including "ignore it" if that is deemed to be the better
> solution.
>    I have been repeatedly asked to talk to elementary school students in
our
> communty and I bring artifacts and overhead transparencies to the
classroom
> for a ca. 45 min. presentation to one or more classes in a single
classroom.
> This morning I had two back-to-back presentations and I was a little
> dismayed to find that the two teachers in the second session sat in the
back
> of the room and one worked on her laptop while the other apparently
> corrected papers as I talked. Two years ago two teachers in another school
> sat and whispered to each other in the back of the room the entire time I
> talked.
>     This does not happen when the students and teachers visit our tiny
> museum, but I am now expecting it every time I go to a school. My concern
is
> that it is a bit disruptive and it means that keeping everyone quiet often
> requires my intervention, rather than the teacher's intervention, because
he
> or she is not paying attention. I am loathe to send a reminder of good
> manners for *teachers* though, so I would appreciate thoughts on what I
> might do about this, if anything.
>  Lynne
>
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