Week 11 - Get me out of here!
What a horrible day. Actually, only the last twenty minutes of it was awful, but those twenty minutes were enough to make me want to run out of the room, and my degree, and never look back.
I did two lessons today. One was working on Pinquo by Colin Thiele, a novel the class has been reading together. The students had to work out main ideas from the text and make some inferences with guiding questions. That lesson went really well.
The second lesson however, did not. I have planned a sequence of lessons for Technology and Enterprise, and this afternoon was the first. It involved newspaper, scissors, glue and students on the floor. The bulk of the lesson went okay, but when it got to clean up, something went horribly wrong. Five boys just went completely off the hook. I DIDN't KNOW WHAT TO DO. I was all alone and had no idea of how to react. I managed to get the situation under control (just) and have the kids packed up and ready to go, but it was a close run thing.
After talking to my supervising teacher, I know now that I need to be much tougher on student behaviour. Looking back, there was niggles going on all lesson and the last part just provided too good an opportunity. I need to use the behaviour management system that is in place at the school and follow through consistently.
I also feel that my instructions could have been slightly clearer.
We'll see how tomorrow goes. I'm ready to jump on the first person who puts a toe out of line. I wonder if anybody will get to detention tomorrow. I hope not.
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