how many times have i said 'shush', 'okay', 'quiet', 'I'm waiting' today?

[feuille]

Apparently with two of my classes, the only way to get full-class attention and silence is to:


a) keep them after class and talk to them about why I need them to be quiet when I am talking (seriously, I haven't heard them be properly silent for more than a few seconds before then);

or,

b) dissect a heart in front of them and tell them about the time I held a human brain.


My main plans are to blind them with stoats and firm discipline. (But not acid, no matter how tempted I may be.) And be a young female teacher when they normally have older men. It's got to make a difference.


I also fell asleep on the bus home a few rows in front of one of my students. *facepalm* Yeah, I'm really putting forward the professional face.

(Also, also, woke up at 5.15am this morning exactly one hour before the alarm, having dreamt my alarm went off. Cue freaking out that the clocks had gone back without my noticing...even though if that had been the case, the alarm and living room clock would, y'know, match. Also cue waking up girlfriend with freakout. This newfangled light-in-the-morning is REALLY screwing up my sleeping patterns.)

Also x 3: this game is so freakin' weird. He just bounces...and wobbles...and rolls...so hypnotically...

Comments

[ce_jour_la]

Just popping in to say hello, and then I find you're a Criminal Minds fan, too? Awesome. :)

This is just one of the five million reason why I could never be a teacher. Professor. Anything remotely in that vein. I completely lack the patience--as well as the tolerance for children. :P

I do the alarm thing, too. All the damn time. It's freaking annoying, isn't it?

[feuille]

Yay Criminal Minds! One of my favourite shows (and Emily is my fave character too!)

Ha, sometimes I don't have much patience for them either. But then I figure that wherever I go there will be people who try my patience, and I might as well be in a profession where I can give them the benefit of the doubt (of being teenagers!). I'm pretty good at not taking their wacky behaviour too seriously - they don't have anything against me, they're just still growing their adult brains!

Recently I've started getting into the habit of waking up again and again, worried the alarm hasn't gone off at all, and making my partner check for me. Really freaking annoying!

[ce_jour_la]

Sometime between fourth season and now, it suddenly became my show. I have no idea how that happened. And Emily is awesome. Though I admittedly have a soft spot for Hotch. And Dave. And... oh, hell, everybody else, too--with the possible exception of Jason Gideon, even though he has his redeeming moments!

Heh, true. Six of one, half-dozen of the other, or some such thing.

It really is! I'm hoping mine tapers off once I get back to a normal sleeping pattern. Hope your brain stops messing with you!

[feuille]

Yay Hotch! (I love your icon. He's so uncharacteristically cheerful!)

All of them are super-awesome. I think Gideon's my least favourite too, but I'm still more fond of him than I am fond of lots of characters in other shows.

[used_songs]

tell them about the time I held a human brain.

Ha! I wish I could use that on mine! I have one class that never stops talking. They are the masters of off topic questions and tangents as well.

I LOVE that game. It's so relaxing.

[feuille]

Well, his mame (the brain's) was Steve and he was 30 years old (and 30 years in the tank). Surprisingly heavy. Fake the story :D

[lonesome_george]

I think firm is the way to go. I remember at college we had a new chemistry teacher that just tried to be chummy with everyone. Most of the class would distract her from work by striking up conversations so we never ended up learning a great deal D:

That game is so mesmerising, such a jiggly cat!

[feuille]

Yeah, there are students of mine that do really like me, I'm very fond of them and I do let my personality come across - but I don't let it get in the way of science!

[nanila]

Shock and Awe in the classroom. Fantastic.

I sympathize with the early rising thing. I've been waking up at 6 AM every morning, full of beans. Of course, that means I'm knackered come 9 PM, but it feels wrong to go to bed then!

[feuille]

My partner and I have a running record of the "Earliest time one of us seriously suggests going to bed" - I think at the moment we've got to 8:30pm or so. We're like two little old ladies in 22 year old bodies!

[gwyn_bywyd]

My main plans are to blind them with stoats

Teehee, brilliant plan!

[feuille]

Thank you! :D

[feuille]

IKR? Unfortunately the stoat-blinding plan only works if the class pays attention to begin with, so that was a no-go. :(