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[cubanlord]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJrna3Mt1DQ

[alabamaman]

Cubanlord are you on record pace for the most new topics in one day again?

[cubanlord]

[SuperHero]

here's another one buy the same teacher. That's just terrible classroom management. You can't blame taht on hyper kids - it's up to the teacher to keep control.

This reminds me of why I don't teach children.

[rawiri]

Well he has a point, i'm certainly not the greatest teacher out there but i can say i've never had a class of kids acting like that. The kids are surprisingly open to structure and discipline so long as you are consistent and start off on the right foot, That teacher looks like he has lost total control.

[alabamaman]

The student in the second video was doing a fairly descent "Michael Jackson" impression.

[cubanlord]

[alabamaman]

[sheba]

This should be put in the "Idiot Teachers" post.....

What's wrong? he asks the kid that is crying - he obviously didnt see him jump from one desk to the other but fall and smack his head....

[VanIslander]

The teacher looks like he is drunk.

[poet13]

I don't think the teacher taught the ABC...Grab chest at G. My kids do it too. When they get to X, they cross their arms at their waists. Well, they used to...

[Khyron]

Maybe he has the class well behaved when the camera isn't on?

Hey 'Rawiri', did you come back to Ulsan? Where are ya these days?

[Yu_Bum_suk]

OMFG. If only the parents could see what they're paying for.

The funny thing is, he probably sends the kids home happy and gets no complaints (apart perhaps from having to explain the odd injury) and someone who actually tried to control those hellions would get nothing but flak.

In my worst possible imaginable class of 30+ students I couldn't imagine seeing during 45 or 50 minutes a fraction of the disorder I saw during that one minute.

[Grotto]

I dont think he's drunk...thats the glazed look of someone stuck in a class with a bunch of 6 year olds.....marines call it the thousand yard stare

Blaming the teacher......aparently the wongjim doesnt have any problems with it otherwise he wouldnt get away with it!

[some waygug-in]

I have to hand it to the guy for having the guts to post that video.

It reminds me of my first year with kids, but even now, after 4 years at this game there are still times and or groups that will resist every and all attempts at being "taught" anything.

I have had classes as bad or worse than that...and sometimes I still do.

I have gotten some very helpful advice from this board and sometimes it helps...with most groups, but not always.

While it's easy to blame the teacher and say things about classroom control, the reality is that often classes are very difficult to control.


It's sometimes very hard to figure out what to do with a group of students, especially if they are used to class being "play time".

I have a certain level 1 class that is almost as bad as his. I was at my wits end trying to gain some sort of control over them. Everything I tried failed, no matter how well it had worked with other groups over the years.
I couldn't even play bingo with them, they wouldn't sit still long enough to even get the game started.
I am slowly finding things that seem to settle them down and make class at least into a semblance of a learning environment.

Things that help are: decent books and resources, if ya got em, there are a lot more things you can do or try. If you don't got em....it really makes things hard.

I'm glad that most of my classes are better than that, tho some days I wonder.