God, don't even say the word "teacher" at my presence
I'm a student of a foreign languages teacher training college and in this year we are having our teacher practices
I teach English a class of 14 year olds now - I had only two lessons with them until now. Do you really want to know how the first one looked like?
The first thing that comes to my mind every time I'm thinking about this is Vonnegut's book's title:"Welcome to the Monkey House". I came into the classroom and trying not to pay attention to a terrible noise said my name... well, it was the only thing I was able to do because my pupils (hmm, it's a veritable irony that in Polish the word pupil if used when we are talking about a kid attending school means "teacher's pet", somebody who's very liked by him) despite my attempts to calm them down behaved like a group of mad buffalos rather than normal young people
Only imagine: I standing there, surrounded by the noisy brats one of whom proposed an intimate intercourse with him to me (with this small difference he didn't use such a subtle expression)
His mates were throwing sponges and pieces of chalk at me at that time. I'm not joking. Few minutes later another bloke asked by me what his name was told me a vulgar name instead of the real one. There was also a dude who informed me they had an English teacher a year earlier who was so afraid of them that she decided to live in Canada for fear of them and that they'd do everything me to do the same
I won't even bring up an issue of several other unpleasant things that happened to me during that lesson. They shouted at me that they wanted to go out so I let them go 15 minutes earlier than they should and the very first thing I did then was to go to the secretariat to ask for the telephone number of their form-master. Unfortunately they didn't have it in that moment but I met there two teachers who were informed by me about my problem. Their eyes were getting wider more and more and they promised me to inform him about everything.
I talked about this to each person met by me - to teachers, other students of my college and even today when I was waiting for my bus I started talking about this to a lady who was also waiting there with me.
Today we had a lesson again. The form-master decided to be in the classroom with me in that time and my first words were a small lesson of a law. My pupils were informed by me that their insults were against the law and if a thing like that would be repeated by them, I'd do something about this - their parents would have to pay damages and I guessed they wouldn't be very happy of it. Today there was also a meeting with parents and said boys's behaviour will be rewarded with the lowest grade possible at the end of the semester. Well, today my dear pupils behaved quite differently - they were ashamed, calm and full of contrition.
Btw, those kids's English is very poor. They have problems even with so simple things like the names of articles of clothing or animals 