[quote=AN][quote=CA renter]I’m willing to bet that if we were to record all the goings-on at your house when you had 20 kids there every weeekday for a year (including disrespectful ones, angry ones, ones who never listen to you, etc.), we’d hear things that would make most people want to call CPS on you. I’d lay money on it. Now imagine if we could cut away all of the conversation before and after the worst thing you’d say so that we don’t have context, how do you think that would sound?[/quote]I’d take that bet. What would I get if I win? FYI, school hours is only ~6 hours. You provide the kids/classroom and I’ll do the teaching.
But really, if you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. Don’t make excuses. That’s what being a teacher is all about. I seen great teachers who can control the class easily. Make the topic fun and the students enjoy learning. I’ve also seen bad teachers who lose control of the class or don’t know how to teach the topic and keep the student engage. The students get bored and act out.
As for your context argument, you might not have context but those who are involve do. You have no context, yet your first response is, the teacher is right. It’s the kids who cause the teachers to do/say those bad things. Seriously, if that’s logic, there’s nothing more to discuss.[/quote]
I didn’t say that the teacher was right, only that we need to know the context in order to truly understand what was going on. I always want to know the context before making judgement about anyone or anything.
And when was the last time you were the sole person in charge of 20+ kids for 6+ hours, much less on a daily basis? And were there any expectations of you, outside of simply controlling them, like your having to teach them a lesson so that every single one of them was proficient at the end of the lesson? Did you have control over which children you were in charge of, or were they randomly assigned to you from a pool of students that included children who were learning disabled, violent, defiant, etc.?
Since you seem to think that you could keep your cool in any situation, how would you have handled these students?
(I get the message this guy is trying to make, but he focuses too much on the man vs. woman issue, my focus is on the video he shows.)
I’m honestly interested in hearing about your methods that would enable you to keep your cool and not say anything that a student or parent might find even the least bit offensive.
