12 Things that can Ruin a Lesson
They can strike at any moment, and invariably will – Ian Goldsworthy runs through a dozen familiar things that can derail your teaching in a second…
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1 | The phantom whistler
2 | When the fire bell rings once and you wait for eternity to see if it will ring again
3 | Multilink – good as a manipulative in maths and even better for tiny sword fights under the table
4 | When you realise too late that you really should have listened to that child who said their tummy felt a little funny
5 | When the children discover that those words are in the dictionary
6 | A devastatingly contagious outbreak of “Can I go to the toilet?”
7 | The thud of a single snowflake echoing through the classroom
8 | When the YouTube clip automatically rolls on to the next video – which is inexplicably Baby Shark
9 | Running out of board pens and resorting to using the yellow one
10 | When they start a self-esteem shattering game of ‘guess the teacher’s age’
11 | A game of cat and mouse with a wasp, featuring the wasp as the cat and your dignity as the mouse
12 | When a silent fart of unknown origin leads to more accusations than a witch trial in Salem
