How do I get over an embarrassing and terrible lesson and turn it around for next week?

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How do I get over an embarrassing and terrible lesson and turn it around for next week?

I was having an off day but teenagers probably don't care that for an unknown reason, it felt like my energy had become completely sucked away whilst teaching!

Even worse, I answered even a few questions with difficulty and probably zapped away my credibility early on, it doesn't help that the school have started me teaching on the modules I have still taught but I am not the best at or have most passion for either!

Help!

You prepare extra for that lesson so you feel confident.
Stuck a confident smile on your face. Smile at them brightly and launch into an active lesson that keeps them working hard and buzzing.

You had an off day, off days are allowed. Just strut your stuff and don't dwell on it.

go to the TES website and have a chat to other teachers

OP how long have you been teaching and what do you teach? We all have bad days

pancakes advice is spot on. Be ultra prepared, keep them busy, make them really think. Kids are a lot more forgiving of bad days than we think. Stick on that confident smile, and get on with it.

They won't remember or care. The weekend will have pushed it from their heads.

For yourself, be extra prepared and fake it until you make it. We have all been there and felt on the back foot but you are probably giving yourself a lot more stick than they ever would

I feel like I've done the unforgivable in answering a few of the very basic questions in my least favourite science genre.....terribly, it was embarrassing and I looked incompetent!!

That was terrible but in a way I do think "God forbid they remember me explaining me taking them step by step in chemical calculations"!

But in a way i'm appalled at myself for getting that simple information publicly wrong even though I felt such malaise in the lesson.....it doesn't help that I teach science and I am presently teaching the science subject I dislike and not the best at....get me to teach the other two sciences any day but this one sucks :/

I just want to get through this

AS others have said you need to go back to the class with confidence and deliver a lesson that the pupils do learn from, most pupils are forgiving and will not even remember the lesson in a couple of weeks.

In the longer term, there is another reality to face up to, this might be the area that you dislike but you are paid as a teacher to deliver across the curriculum not just the bits you like. You need to get to a level where you can deliver this subject areas with confidence. I think you need to talk to your head of department about how you access appropriate training before it becomes a "blockage" that you cannot get past in lessons. You should be having PM reviews about now, so hopefully you can bring it up as sensible discussion point.