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Post by phets72 on Aug 22, 2006 8:13:22 GMT 7
I think this is a great post and wanted to share my experience and what I learnt from the first class - first time scenerio.
I loved the primary and the middle school where OK- the lesson plans where great to do and easier to be really creative, but when it came to the high schoolers - they where a nightmare. I tried everything. In the beginning I was very nervous around them and tried to make them happy - but I just wasn't and in the end I just became really made with them all the time. I asked a chinese teaching friend to come in and look at my class. What she noticed was that I was getting 'really angry' with them, defence I would say, but if I relaxed and went with the flow, the classes wouldn't be like going to the dentist to have my teeth extracted. Anyway, most of the students where there last term because they had to be by order of the head master, so I can see some of it wasn't me and I can stop giving myself a hard time for that, but this term I'm gonna go in there and try and have a good time and try and smile even when I've done all I can - I suppose that's all that I can do.
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Post by Mr Nobody on Aug 22, 2006 8:47:09 GMT 7
I had a friend who said that the first day or week of any new job, you should turn up scruffy, hung over and do a very bad job. Do it long enough to give them an impression.
Then clean up your act a little back to your normal standard, and then the boss thinks you have improved. He will be pleased from there on in. Any lapses will be seen as this, not as a dropping of standards.
Not sure this really works, but I just thought I would post it here and perhaps amuse some folk.
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Post by Missi on Aug 22, 2006 15:23:49 GMT 7
I teach high school kids and I love it. They are cheeky little buggers, I give them that, give them and inch and they take more than just one mile.
They come into the classroom with the expectation that its all gonna be fun and games and DVD's. I try to get them out of that during day one. It sounds terrible to say this I know, but I got to take my dog to obidience school. The method works. I give lots of praise when its earned, and pretty much say little when they are doing things they shouldn't.
I use a reward system as well in the classroom. If the students all work hard, and try and practice, then they get a movie about every sixth week or so. Every week I am not able to finish my lesson, the DVD gets pushed back a week. Then I get the "It's our right to watch the DVD!"
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