Are we loud enough?
It’s Monday again, start for another week of teaching. I love my work so much and I’m really enjoying it a lot but there are times that I’m also sensitive towards my profession.
This morning, I had my Chemistry class with my Year10 students. I was so excited to introduce them the new lesson for I know that it’ll be an easy and interesting one for them. The lesson’s about “The Reactivity Series”, so it’ll include a lot of experiments!!! So I did my best to explain all the stuffs that they need to know before conducting the activity because we’ll use acid, so to eliminate accidents, I must brief them first and remind them many times that they have to be very careful. I did the first experiment with Mg to produce its oxide by steam, conclusion…it’s a success!!! A beautiful white powder was seen inside the test-tube, it’s MgO!!! Afterwards, it’s the students turn, they need to do the reactivity of medium reactive metals with acid, then came the chaos! OMG! my students just started to be very noisy. For a while I gave some space to them to discuss to their groupmates about the metals that they needed to test…but as time passes by, I can’t handle it anymore! They’re really NOISY and they’re POPPING my eardrums!!! There Ms. Joyce exploded! I wasn’t able to control myself anymore so what I did is get my book and hit it on my desk to catch their attention…BANG! all of them got surprised and stood quiet, they knew me well. I seldom get angry but don’t force me. Since I’m already pissed with my voice (having sore throat so I can’t speak well) and I prepared a lot to make this activity a special one, I simply do not deserve their childish actions. Verdict, I sent them all to detention and asked them to write an essay titled “ARE we LOUD enough?”
Again, it’s Monday…..terrible sore throat, got pissed, students hated me for losing their lunch time and spending it with the teacher on duty in the detention room. It’s gonna be Tuesday tomorrow, I wonder what will happen next. Hope that their not that loud anymore!!!
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1:08 pm on March 5th, 2007
what a teacher x_X
you could hardly pass as a Disciplinary Personnel
1:23 pm on March 5th, 2007
do u know where i can buy one???
hehe, i hate “pasaway” students, coz i was one before…and now i can relate to the feelings of other teachers who r also experiencing the same problems like mine!!