It's never easy to face new class and even more frighting to face a group of students with tricky behavior. Here's my chaotic lesson...
As a young teacher I entered new class few weeks into the second semester. It was a new class consisted of mostly behaviorally tricky students. They thought they were smarter than what the education could give them and thus disrupted every lesson they had in their original classes. Now, I've known myself pretty well - I'm tough. Or so I thought. As I entered the classroom, there was noise and chatter. I tried to introduce myself, there was noise and chatter. I wrote my name and subject on the blackboard and there was noise and chatter. So, I did the only thing I could think of at the time. I climbed on the chair, plugged my ears and screamed, LOUD. It sounded as if I was completely crazy. But it got their attention and they stopped talking. There was scary silence. Still standing on the chair, in calm voice (or I think it was calm), I introduced myself and recited the rules I expected them to follow. I don't really remember what I told them at that moment, but few weeks later they brought me a paper banner with my classroom motto: YOU CAN'T MAKE ME CRAZY, I ALREADY AM. Apparently it was one of the things I said to them. There were 28 students in that class and we still keep in touch.
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