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Could you define what the role is? Is it a teaching role, a TA position, or something else?

garyconyers: " I personally feel that raising awareness and understanding helps to try and educate the children to understand what they are saying, but if you feel that your instant punishments will somehow magically cure the world of racism and social ignorance, then good luck . " - dc88.   Again, you think that punishments/sanctions are 'bad'. I disagree and feel that educating along with sanctioning is...

Hi Tom   Here's a site that may be useful:   www.teaching-strategies-for-classroom-discipline.com   Rob

Thanks again everyone, lots to consider!

Hi, Perhaps I can chip in with the benefit of 28 year's experience; you can be friendly but you can't be their mate. You must keep that professional distance in order to retain their respect. They will very often see it as a sign of weakness if you try to be over-friendly. Whether they like you or not is immaterial (thought it's clearly better if they do) what's important is whether the pupils RESPECT you or not; if you...

guy.incognito: We're back on the chart, and today he got three stickers in the morning. I had to send him out again in the afternoon (again) for throwing things and shouting out and at other children. I would just calmly carry on exactly with this. If he is good he gets the stickers (and an end of week reward for a certain no.?) and if he is naughty he gets one chance and then goes. Do it every single time on every single day and then he...

I was given a bottom set yr 8 (10 out of 30 having "dys" in front of their names, the rest ADHD, Asperger's OCD and so on...that wa real fun.) on my very first day of PGCE teaching practice, PLUS OFSTED were watching. Hurray!!!!!!!!!!!! OFSTED weren't watching the school, but the PGCE. I left them in no doubt how I felt bout it..and they agreed with me. Probably the rist nd last time any ofsted people were on par...

Moony: whilst this is my 3rd new school i'd have thought that it would have been getting easier to do by now.    ..and therin lies the main reason why you  are still experiencing this!  It's nothing to do with you and your experience, or lack of it.  It's just what so many of today's pupils feel entitled to mete out to new staff.  It's their initiation of you and,...

Again, thanks, more good advice. I've already learned not to hold any grudges or take it personally. He's one of five children I have that routinely disrupt lessons (all from dodgy homes) but he's flaring up the most noticably at the moment. We have much worse in school to be honest, and soon I have the full-time return of another boy in my class who is currently at the PRU in mornings and on a reduced time table in the...

The cleaners regularly moan about their jobs, and as a former window cleaner I have much sympathy. I even dated the hot cleaner at my last school. She hated her job & called it crap every single day. And yes, middle-class is perhaps outdated as a concept, but I guess a lot of us use it as an association with all this silly pandering & wishy washy ideas... ie..poor you, working as a cleaner through education and now you're...