Wk3: Free Post Teaching Middle School

Middle School can be a tough and trying time trying to tell eleven and twelve year old kids what you're teaching will benefit them in the long run. But how frustrating is it when everything you teach, falls on dead ears. You have incorporate the technology, played educational games, you even tried adding graphical art to illustrate your point, and still the students are disruptive and disrespectful. What do you do then? How can you change your class around for the better? Do you try and get a new class? Teach a new subject or perhaps teach older children.

At what point, as a teacher, when enough is enough and stop preparing for a lesson the night before? Is it a waste of time preparing for something that will end up failing? As teachers are we suppose to endure all the natural things tweens are capable and deal with it? Do we punish kids for being kids?

These questions are the thoughts of many of my colleagues at work and is it quite an overwhelming conversation. I hear that most of the time spent in the class is disciplining and moving chairs, rather than teaching content. How would you address this concern if a new teacher approached you? What would be your advice?