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[khyber]

Does anyone else have this problem.

I've been at this school for 1.8yrs. In that time, i have seen a few students go from pre-to-in the change- to "post" pub.
That first jump is just ruining some kids, usually for them to turn out "just fine" on the other side.

Especially right now I have this one boy. Man, the change; about 6 or7 months ago, this kid would barely shut up, and always speaking at least decent english, and really eager to learn. Now? Dude won't even answer the question "How was your vacation?" without about 20seconds of waiting.

I'm not asking for how to deal with this...just asking for other similar stories: Help me to feel "unalone".

~moved to Job Discussion Forum by waterbaby~

[kiwiboy_nz_99]

If they're hitting the 'silent phase' don't force things. Switch to a more listening and writing approach until they come out of it.

[matko]

Yup!!

I HATE teaching Junior High School aged kids! AAAARRRGGGGHHHHH!!!!!

[khyber]

well, i force SOMETHING. I mean, give me a "so-so", "computer game", and i'm happy, well, content..
also, it's only one student in a class of ten (and usually it isn't more than 1 or two students at a time) and i'm not going to (in 80% of cases) adapt a whole lesson for one student (in a class)....but i do give that particular student attention if they need it (though this latest dude, is smart, just quiet).

[nev]

I find most kids are fairly communicative. Even the quiet classes give you a degree of input. When I look back on my school years and, even worse, my university tutorials I feel deep pity for my teachers, with most of their questions being met by a wall of silence. Give me rowdy kids over mute kids any day.

Mind you, I say that, but I wouldn't mind puberty hitting a few of my students.

[crazylemongirl]

yeah hormones turn normal kids into monsters. Hell, I was talking to my little brother on the phone the other day and he's turned into one of the surly teenage types (he's 14) hopefully he'll be ok out the other end.

clg

[rapier]

Korean kids are always one extreme or the other, no in-between. They're either screaming, yelling animals, or painfully silent.
And yep, puberty is the ruination of a lot of kids. The teens are the age of all knowledge... there's not a lot you can do about it, just keep plodding on..

[khyber]

but i dunno about the rest of you, it seems as though a slim majority of boys have a more wacky time of puberty. I think i've been seen about 6 girls and 4 boys go through it and the boys seems to have three stages
pre: eager, fun and reasonable
during: quite, unreasonable and difficult to control
post: great students who are a bit quiet.

Anyways, i know that when i have children, their middle school teachers are gettign some over the top gifts from me

[kangnamdragon]

same problem all over the world...