[ SECRET POST #2667 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2667 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Non-fandom secrets!

[herpymcderp]

I already wrote up the situation in which I used to use the tactic of forcing answers in another comment, but to summarize: problem students.

You're absolutely right, it's bullying, but most of the students I used that approach with were bullies themselves (occasionally I'd do it to wake up someone who was about to fall asleep lol). Trying to maintain order in a class full of teenagers is pretty delicate, and in some cases there's no hope for it unless the students are a little scared of you... particularly in cases where you both know you're not allowed to restrain them. For me it was absolutely successful: it kept them from harming the rest of the students in my care and it kept them from forming the idea that they might be able to gang up on me. I taught in a private school, and there was option of sending them away for discipline.

In any case, I'm not a teacher anymore because I have other interests that I felt were more important uses of my time, career-wise. I can happily report that in all my terms my students passed their exams (the ones that were failing dropped out when I made it clear that my terms weren't going to be the bird course that they were used to) and did leave my classroom more enlightened than when they arrived.

Re: Non-fandom secrets!

[(Anonymous)]

I've little sympathy for bullies of any sort so if you'd like to pick on students who dish the same thing out to others then I suppose you can do that if you like. The fact, however, that you said only most of these people were bullies themselves troubles me though. I hope you meant the remainder of those you did this too were falling asleep?

I guess you and I have/had differing methods of teaching then. I try to be kind at all times, though you may think of that as coddling. I think your methods are hit and miss and when they miss is where it's really problematic, but it doesn't really matter much now.

Re: Non-fandom secrets!

[herpymcderp]

My methods change according to circumstance, if it makes you feel any better.

My teaching philosophy is "find the lesson that fits the student". It worked pretty much the same way for discipline. I wouldn't push this kind of attention to students who would benefit from a personal talking-to after the lecture. I would absolutely do it for someone who was looking for public attention from the rest of their classmates and had a history of acting up (I made sure to get that information from the people who had my job previously before I was hired on- this wasn't just based on guesswork).