If you count winning a small battle in an ongoing power struggle with 5 year olds a success... Which I do so...
I think I've already mentioned how much I hate my first class of the day. They're loud, rude, and generally do not listen at all. The teacher for that class loves them but mysteriously spends her time outside of the classroom whenever they're there. So basically it's my everyday goal to make one of ten cry and send a message (I don't wish this on any other class mind you. Whenever I make a kid cry, which is often, I usually feel really bad)
So you know I have the tonsillitis, and yesterday I was forced to come in and teach so I was not happy at all. Plus I had just taken my medicine that makes me nausious... So the kids start acting up as usual and all of my usual tactics for settling them down were not working (I used my scary voice/face, moved the kids.. Nothing!) so I decide I'm going to tell on them (yeah lame I know but I didn't care). I start taking down the really bad kids names and threaten to take down the names of the not so bad kids. They didn't seem to know what the list was about.
So I finally get around to teaching and start calling kids up to the board (they're favorite thing) and I just start skipping the bad ones becaus I just cannot deal with their shit just yet and then I realize... They're starting to get sad... Really sad. They really wan to learn and go up to the board an show off to their friends. So I look at the not so bad kids and say "I only call on good children." they finally start to get the message.
At this point the two girls in the class are just so smug I could die (they've been called on multiple times by now) and the really bad students are just sulking in their seats. Their teacher comes in and the complaints start, but I don't call on them anyway. By the time class was finished I knew I had broken them at last!!
So today I come in and though they had a rough start (they like to come in pushing and shoving each other) they were the best they've ever been (including my first week when they were still afraid of me). The girls still looked smug as hell too. Mission accomplished!
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I think I've already mentioned how much I hate my first class of the day. They're loud, rude, and generally do not listen at all. The teacher for that class loves them but mysteriously spends her time outside of the classroom whenever they're there. So basically it's my everyday goal to make one of ten cry and send a message (I don't wish this on any other class mind you. Whenever I make a kid cry, which is often, I usually feel really bad)
So you know I have the tonsillitis, and yesterday I was forced to come in and teach so I was not happy at all. Plus I had just taken my medicine that makes me nausious... So the kids start acting up as usual and all of my usual tactics for settling them down were not working (I used my scary voice/face, moved the kids.. Nothing!) so I decide I'm going to tell on them (yeah lame I know but I didn't care). I start taking down the really bad kids names and threaten to take down the names of the not so bad kids. They didn't seem to know what the list was about.
So I finally get around to teaching and start calling kids up to the board (they're favorite thing) and I just start skipping the bad ones becaus I just cannot deal with their shit just yet and then I realize... They're starting to get sad... Really sad. They really wan to learn and go up to the board an show off to their friends. So I look at the not so bad kids and say "I only call on good children." they finally start to get the message.
At this point the two girls in the class are just so smug I could die (they've been called on multiple times by now) and the really bad students are just sulking in their seats. Their teacher comes in and the complaints start, but I don't call on them anyway. By the time class was finished I knew I had broken them at last!!
So today I come in and though they had a rough start (they like to come in pushing and shoving each other) they were the best they've ever been (including my first week when they were still afraid of me). The girls still looked smug as hell too. Mission accomplished!
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Yeeeahhhh Chine!!! TAKE EM DOWN *SLURP*
ReplyDeleteChine!! i finished you're beautiful~
ReplyDeleteit was sO GOOD..
i really like the main character....
he is soo cute. new crush. hahha
miss you!!!!
I do too. Yo Yo.
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