There is nothing like teaching kids that should not even be in a class learning English on a daily basis. I teach some boys that have just about not attention span whatsoever, or else just some bad ADD. One of them is definitely much younger than the other (he naps quite often), and another boy, he's just to be the center of attention every day.
So I give this kid a stamp (in the form of an X for being bad). Some of the other boys pick on him for getting it, and he goes NUTS!!! He would not sit in his chair no matter how many times, I told him to sit. I had to block him from going up to these other boys and beating them on the head. Finally I just picked up the little SH*% (excuse my language, because I don't post stuff like this at all) and took him out in the lobby and let the Koreans deal with him. Then of course he came back, pulled some little balloon thing out of his bag, and kept blowing it up as big as it could get. If I tried to take it he squealed like a pig going to slaughter. Anyway, somehow I was able to get two or three of the boys and my almost-perfect girls to pay attention towards the end.
It also didn't help that our copy machine was out of commission today, because I would have had a cool body part worksheet for the little SH*% to do, which he excels at, but I was having to use an alternative plan, which went almost nowhere. Anyway, I got to have a break after that class, and then my next class was amazing. One of the girls told me about how when I first started teaching at this academy she didn't really care for me much (with the good 'ole thumbs down gesture), and then she proceeded to tell me how much she enjoys my class. I was shocked, but it definitely made me feel better about my job. If I could lose that two hours of teaching that lowest level class I would definitely feel younger again!! Anyway, I'm headed back to the gym next week so all is good regardless.
Hope your hump day as been as adventurous as this one.
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