Like any job, teaching consists of good days and bad days. Last Friday was my first bad day since starting my new post and this had a big, negative impact on the enjoyment of the weekend and the days that followed.
There were myriad reasons for me feeling this way. I had dealt with a few behaviour incidents during the day and was not entirely satisfied with how I had handled some of them.
For instance, there is a small group of boys in my tutor group whose behaviour has deteriorated recently.
When these boys turned up to form time five minutes late on Friday morning, I took them outside of the classroom to discuss the situation, one of them responded disrespectfully and I lost my temper. The boy responded in kind, causing the situation to escalate into an argument.
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