Wow that was the worse lesson of my career

[Shadowboy]

And it was during an interview.
I need a tub of ice cream and some booze (I don't even drink)!!

Ha! Just remember you are interviewing them as much as they are you! Think you know your answer!

My worst lesson (non interview): a15 year old boy banged my head against a wall. (I teach in an SEMH school!)

Sounds like I've been lucky in the schools I've taught!

I just felt like I was set up to fail really, I also feel sorry for those kids who had a completely wasted lesson.
The two students that did my tour were fantastic though, really good at explaining about their school and were very frank about their experiences. Shame no staff bothered to say hello though- would ha e made the day less stressful!

Pay it no mind! I've taught some of my absolutely shittest lessons on interview (she says airily). I squirm to remember some of them.

My favourite might have been trying to get pupils to write a newspaper article about Romeo and Juliet (lesson set by school) to a small group of Y9 pupils who had never done Romeo and Juliet and had no idea what it was about. During my efforts, it transpired that none of them had a reading age higher than 8, which made it trickier. Also none of them were prepared to write anything down. At all.

I clearly failed to rise to the challenge in the 30 minutes allotted to me. I then compounded this in the actual interview when the question 'should we teach Shakespeare in Y9' drew the response 'not your Y9s - they're not up to it' from me...