Chinese School- anyone watching?

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They seem so used to be entertained rather than taught.

Yes , interesting ! The kids all look so fidgety and un interested - exactly as I was at school

Sophie is an attention seeker, but to be fair the Chinese teacher's classroom management skills are almost inviting a child like her to act out! Lots of 'is that ok'
I agree it's exaggerated by the camera but I bet her parents are cringing!

The Chinese teachers don't seem to know how to cope with it at all.

minkychick are you a fellow Bohunt parent? Miss Hogg is fab, sad she's left. Mr Whitworth is great too. Some of these kids though

looks so boring. not very interactive.

no English literature though

Hang on, how come that UK teacher is teaching the Chinese group trig? Won't that skew the "experiment" with the exam at the end?

I assume Chinese teachers don't often have to deal with a noisy, disruptive class, so won't have the methods to deal with it

They seem like perfectly normal teens to me... the teaching from some of these Chinese teachers is bloody shocking IMO. They also seem to get flustered by the kids quite easily.

They don't seem to take any responsibility. No concentration, no manners.

That's what I was thinking, noblegiraffe.
But, I suppose he felt he couldn't turn the girls away as they'd asked for help.

I'm at the behaviour of so many of these English kids.

My comp was very small and I don't remember any disruption like this

The Chinese teachers don't seem to know how to cope with it at all.
Because they have never had to cope with it at all.

I appreciate that what we are seeing is edited but the badly behaved students don't seem to be sanctioned beyond being shouted at.

I don't like the idea of a teacher having to cope with that daily. I would be mortified if my kids were seen as something to cope with, actually.

The noise levels are so consistently high. They just can't shut up!

Their behaviour to me seems silly and low-level disruptive... it's only spiralling out of control because it isn't being dealt with at all.

The average classroom is just not like that. I was never the most engaging or inspiring teacher but even in a bog standard school I set work and told them to get on quietly or is silence and they did.

That's exactly it Philoslothy- it's just shouting with no actual sanction or consequence.

They should be dealing with their behaviour themselves, imo. What age are they? 14/15? Why is the idea of listening so radical?!

I love Rosie and her friend

I like the attitude of the male Chinese teacher (switched on late, didn't catch any names sorry).

I'm developing a bit of a soft spot for Joe. He just needs someone to believe in him and encourage him. He will bloom.

Me too, Songbird. I can recognise a couple of my students in Rosie and Angelina (?). I have taught couple of Sophies in my time too!

Yes the male teacher seems a bit less rigid and freaked out by the differences between the kids.

I think that compared to the other two women teachers, he is trying to understand the students' problems/failings and sort them out, rather than worry about their own failings as teachers/ deliverers of knowledge.