Have name changed for this as I'm feeling pretty embarrassed. I started in a primary school as a PPA cover teacher in Sept. I'm a teaching a subject that has been very badly taught in the past. As a result, it's massively unpopular. I'm working really hard to prepare fun and engaging lessons and to raise the profile of my subject and I think I'm gradually turning things round and making it more enjoyable for most year groups. I feel that the children are actually making some progress now. However, I'm really struggling with behaviour among the year 6 classes. They often don't stop talking when I ask them to, shout out and on several occasions when I've explained that their behaviour is stopping us from getting the work done, they've actually cheered. They just don't understand why they have to do this subject and the lack of respect that they show me is quite shocking. I only see them for an hour every fortnight (so only 8 lessons so far since September) so it's taking time for me to change their attitude to the subject. I've had children shouting at me, refusing to sit down and obviously have dealt with these as they've arisen, but worse I think is the general and fairly consistent low-level behaviour that's holding up the lesson and me constantly going on about it is making a pretty negative environment which isn't improving their enjoyment of the subject! The school has a very strong and consistent behaviour policy which I stick to and I have sent several letters to parents but I'm feeling really ground down with it all. I feel pretty powerless as, being a new, part-time, non-class teacher I don't have a high profile in the school and some children think they can walk all over me.
I'm an experienced teacher and have had my own class for years in other schools with no major behaviour problems so this is all a bit of a shock and I'm really starting to question my own ability. Can anyone give me any pearls of wisdom?
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Feelingratherembarrased · 06/01/2016 13:30
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