Starting today...I think my students will start to hate me.
I've been taken advantage of too many times by my students, and enough is enough. Yesterday, I had the worst day. My students completely ignored everything I told them, they behaved very poorly, and worst of all, they embarrassed me in front of the department head and my mentor teacher from SFA. To any bystander, I'm sure it looked like I had absolutely no control over my classes and, consequently, had no business teaching at all.
So, today, I turned over a new leaf. I'm being much more strict now. My classes probably wont even be very enjoyable for the rest of the semester, and I know they'll hate it...but it's nobody's fault but their own. They can hate me all they want. They can hate my class and talk about me to other students and teachers. I don't care. I'm through trying to get them to like me. They had a really lenient teacher before, they abused that privilege, and now they have to face the consequences.
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