After the half term holiday I now face only two more weeks of being a student teacher, or to be politically correct: a trainee teacher. In spite of the best part of a year's experience under my 'Next' belt I was still surprised at being back in school and was dumbfounded by the plethora of children running about the playground during Monday breaktime - where did they come from?
I may be feeling more confident and assured in the classroom but my inexperience still shows sometimes. In my year 8 lesson one pupil put up his hand to make a point in a discussion about probability, in this instance the probability of pigs flying. The class is chatty so I hush them to let the boy get his say: 'I want everyone to show Bart respect and let him make his point'. He then comes out with:
'It's not impossible because a pig might have sex with a pigeon and their baby could be a flying pig!' I think my wisdom in allowing him to speak at all could be called into question. This then set the tone for the rest of the lesson.
As part of a discussion about things that are certain I swear another pupil said soemthing along the lines of 'it is certain that sir is a paedaphile' but I couldn't hear him fully and was hardly about to ask him to repeat it any louder.
One day teenagers will learn to be sensible during classroom discussions, but then again, pigs might fly.
2006-06-06 @ 18:21