Teaching the very last lessons of the year... fucking HOOOOWWW ??

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I'm in my first year of teaching (not in the UK). The kids are getting more and more restless and unmanageable and I still have 7 hours of class time left to teach.

What the bloody hell are you supposed to do this the last lessons? Pressure from management is to keep teaching right to the bitter end, but the kids are really losing it. Massive heatwave here at the moment as well, so it's pretty insufferable all round.

Anyone have a miracle teenage calming tactic?

Don’t know if it will help but I set my class a code cracking exercise today and to my surprise the class just went silent working it out. They loved it! A little prize incentive helped but they would have done it without prizes too. They are a P4 class but you could find one to adapt to their age/abilities. Maybe puzzle sheets? Good luck!

7 hours left?

Being horrible at them till they shut up and work is one option. Could also try bribery (house points, sweets). Engineer outside lessons?

I'm planning bribery... If they work well tomorrow, I'll flout management and we can watch a film for the last class.

I have class first thing in the morning, so with a tiny bit of luck they might be too tired to act up for my class. I'll light a candle for the colleagues who are teaching the last lessons of the day ...

5 loooong weeks to go here! Kids are all ready for finishing, so am I yet still have all end of year exams to do, projects, rewrite SOWs.
Ugh.

I showed a film on the last day of term. I got round the 'no just sitting and watching films' rule by giving them puzzle sheets and colouring in sheets that were relevant to my subject.
I told the class they'd better look busy if anyone came in and occasionally barked 'I hope you're all doing something' !

Ahhh yes good thinking @mineofuselessinformation ! I’m ESL so was planning to pause at intervals for a little vocabulary discussion, in order to make it educational 😂

I am secondary. I started a lesson today with a quick quiz on one of the topics we've studied this year. Then gave the students some time to work in pairs on their own quiz or puzzle (I gave them a choice of a few topics to base it on), then they could swap and play each others'. That kept them quiet and calm!

Lots of things you can do linked to the World Cup e.g. assign each pair / person / small group a country and ask them to research then give a short presentation on the country's history / geography / cuisine / famous people, etc.

Science, lots of science and code cracking. We’re doing slime, ph indicators and baking to investigate chemical and material change. And a bit of art as well.

I'm in Victoria and like so many schools here, we start the new year at the end of the old, e.g. reports for 2018 written in November but with two weeks to go, 2019 will start first week in December. And it's real. The content of the 2019 curriculum is not re-taughtafter the summer holidays.

It is knackering for teachers who have to flip into a new year the Monday after the end of the old. The upside is no discipline problems.