Hey!
So my name is Milan and I teach biology on a high school in the Netherlands. If you have any questions regarding my job feel free to ask them below!
How do you deal with students who misbehave?
Are you a teacher that is harsh with discipline?
What is it like being a teacher?
That really depends on the student and the relation that you have with them. It is more easy with students that you had in earlier years. We’ve got this called red card. If the students misbehaves to an extreme matter we can send them to a teamleader. I usually try to avoid using such matters. Most of the time a very strict glance at them is enough. If that does not work I find it important to adress the behaviour and stress that is wrong.
I don’t see myself as a strict teacher at all. But I set very clear boundries for my students, and they are well aware of these boundries. I usually don’t have to punish the behaviour, instead I adress the rules. If they do not follow my rules they will receive a warning. Besides that I try to use as much humor in my teaching as I can!
Being a teacher is a very fun job, it is entertaining but also very exhausting work. Not phiscally but mentally. Students can sometimes really work on your nerves and they will try to test you. But most of the time I have a lot of fun with the students. I love to prank my students a lot.
I hope that answers your questions!
Do you think biology is your students favourite subject? Because for me it wasn't the worst yet it wasn't the best.
(Oct 23, 2019, 08:37 PM)Eddie Wrote: [ -> ]Do you think biology is your students favourite subject? Because for me it wasn't the worst yet it wasn't the best.
I don't expect all of my students to like the subject, because that is just not possible. The job of a good teacher is to make a subject interesting to students even though they are not into it. I try to do this with getting items from my and their personal life. This makes it a lot more interesting for them because it is recoqnizable. When they have seen a trending item on the news for example they are able to talk about the subject alongside with me. This way you are forming a classtalk, which is a fun way to teach!
what was it like getting demoted for not giving the mono-rail secrets?
Craziest story from your classroom?