I knew my first year teaching would be difficult. I read books about classroom management in anticipation. I had nightmares that my students wouldn’t listen to me. I worried that I would run out of things for them to do in class and everything would devolve into fiery chaos. There was one thing, however, that I was wholly unprepared to…
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Every teacher has had a day where everything went wrong and you felt like you had no control over your class at all. One particularly horrifying moment in my teaching career was when I was walking an unruly class back from lunch. They were literally (and I am using literally correctly) screaming and lying down in the hallway. That moment…
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