September 2010 - Posts
It is absolutely crazy how quickly the weeks pass, I have 2 periods in the week I dread, and they are right in the middle!! Up until period 5 on a Wednesday, I can teach pretty well, and after period 7 on a Wednesday, I am back to my best!
For that 100 minutes of my life, I cannot for the life of me get those kids to be quiet for more than 2 minutes, nor can I get them to take part in a Badminton practice without playing a full on rally! I have no idea what else to do!!!
But still, due to probationer training, and the weekend, I have only 4 more days with the kids in school until October break, I am off to Loch Eil for the second half of next week, and although there will be young folks there, I'll be living it up going canooing, rock climbing, gorge walking.........jealous?
This has been an eventful week, but without school trips!! My Bank account was shut due to fraudulent activity, I lost my pen drive, the Pope visited and I had my first crazy situation to deal with!!
Picture the scence, large games hall, 30 kids, not enough shuttles for everyone to play, whilst Im hunting for shuttles, one little bampot has more than enough for him and 6 other folk to play, but he's pelting them off another pupils back, and finishes off by swinging his racquet at her!!!!! I quickly asked him to step outside, and left him for a few minutes before going to speak to him!
I walked outside, asked him what was going on, got some attitude, and told him I couldnt trust him to come back into the lesson, whilst he is walking away telling em to 'Shut Up'! I asked the young lad to come back down the stairs to me and his reply was priceless.....
'WHIT SO AH KIN COME AND LISTEN TO YOU TALKING SH%&E, AWAY YOU AND F^^K OFF!'
I was so surprised I just laughed at him, then I thought, how the heck do I deal with this? I walked back into the class, and even the kids asked me why I was laughing! I guess we'll see how he is in a few days when he is back in school!!
What did I learn from this.......SMILE! It annoys them even more!!
Its almost time for a shandy!!
Week four has been ticked off! I had my first probationer training day on wednesday, and although not all of the activities can be used within the PE lesson, I gained a few ideas that I want to try with my Standard Grade group when they are in the theory lesson.
What was also good about the training day (no not the lunch in the Primary) but, hearing that I am not the only one who is havving trouble with settling pupils down at the beggining of lessons is somewhat relieving! It was also good to hear of other peoples successes and to try to relate back to my own teaching performance.
I had another trip out to Hampden, this time to watch the dross that was on display on Tuesday night!! I feel that I set a good example, of how to abuse Kris Boyd without actually swearing at him! I then got to jump around like a 13 year old again when McManus scored, and to my horror, I looked around to see the other teachers merely standing applauding, embarrassed is an understatement! Although embarassed, I feel like that minute of madness has endeared me to the kids who were there, and they now know that I am a 'normal' person, and not just a big bad teacher, which should hopefully make life a little easier for me.
I cant believe that its only 2 weeks until the September weekend, this year is flying by a little too quickly!
Again, this week seems to have flashed before my eyes! I have developed a sore throat, and a runny nose!! The pupils have taken my pleas for sympathy silence well, and settled down really quickly, I might layer it on this thick every week!! Yesterday, I had my first trip out of the School, where we went to Hampden, for the stadium and museum tours with the second year football team.
I think I was more excited than the kids were in the museum, taking pictures like a snap happy tourist!! It was good to see the pupils outside of the normal school environment, and the more informal setting allowed for a more relaxed conversation with the majorty of them.
We were in the underground training area where they could measure the pace of your shot, and I think I was more nervous here than I was with my first class I had on my own. I was dreading missing the target, especially after the toher two staff managed it in dress shoes!! I didnt exactly put the laces through it, but it hit the back of the net, and I scored double what the other members of staff did, so the boys were impressed!!
First CPD day is next wednesday, hopefully meet some of you guys then.....its Basketball time!