No, not my class. I prefer to rebel on the Internets :P
This came secondhand from a couple of buddies at uni who are studying secondary teacher degrees. They share a few classes with us primary teaching folk, but this class is just for the secondary students.
Therefore, I present to you:
How to get your class to rebel against you:
1. Whenever students step outside for a loo break/emergency phone call/other unrelated issue, openly criticise them and make negative statements about them. (For instance, "Gee she leaves the classroom all the time doesn't she?"
2. Fail to provide a topic handbook and instead hand them a list of assignments and the statement of assessment methods. (the latter is required for ALL topics and basically lists the requirements to pass said topic, assignments and when they are due. It does NOT give any further information about the actual assignments themselves)
3. Make fun of students who are absent frequently for legitimate reasons.
4. When students are doing an oral presentation, fail to inform them that you can't make it (she'd known about this a couple of days in advance) and instead that you will be filming them. Do not give students the opportunity to do their presentations sans camera.**
5. Finally, annoy your class to the point where they all just up and leave.
Several of the students went and got the Dean when #5 happened. Dean talks to the person in charge of said class. Students are allowed to give their presentations without being filmed and the dean has a long "conversation" with the person in question.
That person is now no longer allowed to teach Masters students. Instead, they were relegated to teaching the lower-year classes, but in those cases, they were topics that ALL the students (primary/secondary/special ed) were required to take. (meaning that if students were uncomfortable with said teacher, they could switch to another class)
**-short version is that unless the students film themselves and send it to their tutor, or their tutor asks them to sign a consent form (even if over 18), students cannot be filmed by their tutors, even with prior notice.
This came secondhand from a couple of buddies at uni who are studying secondary teacher degrees. They share a few classes with us primary teaching folk, but this class is just for the secondary students.
Therefore, I present to you:
How to get your class to rebel against you:
1. Whenever students step outside for a loo break/emergency phone call/other unrelated issue, openly criticise them and make negative statements about them. (For instance, "Gee she leaves the classroom all the time doesn't she?"
2. Fail to provide a topic handbook and instead hand them a list of assignments and the statement of assessment methods. (the latter is required for ALL topics and basically lists the requirements to pass said topic, assignments and when they are due. It does NOT give any further information about the actual assignments themselves)
3. Make fun of students who are absent frequently for legitimate reasons.
4. When students are doing an oral presentation, fail to inform them that you can't make it (she'd known about this a couple of days in advance) and instead that you will be filming them. Do not give students the opportunity to do their presentations sans camera.**
5. Finally, annoy your class to the point where they all just up and leave.
Several of the students went and got the Dean when #5 happened. Dean talks to the person in charge of said class. Students are allowed to give their presentations without being filmed and the dean has a long "conversation" with the person in question.
That person is now no longer allowed to teach Masters students. Instead, they were relegated to teaching the lower-year classes, but in those cases, they were topics that ALL the students (primary/secondary/special ed) were required to take. (meaning that if students were uncomfortable with said teacher, they could switch to another class)
**-short version is that unless the students film themselves and send it to their tutor, or their tutor asks them to sign a consent form (even if over 18), students cannot be filmed by their tutors, even with prior notice.
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