Teacher Breaks Kid'S Cell Phone
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Not sure if this is real or not but more power to him.
At my last school students weren't even supposed to HAVE cellphones... ha.
A good way to deal with it is to give a warning at the start of class:
If I see or hear a cellphone while I'm teaching, it gets confiscated for the duration, and if it rings while it's sitting on my desk, I'll answer it.
That's usually enough to get teenagers reaching for the off switch.
A teacher in our EP took a ringing cell phone from a student and threw it across the classroom into the trash can. Not sure who paid for the phone, but apparently it was an expensive one and both the school and the parents thought the situation could have been handled differently.
Gave me a bit of a laugh.
Here is how I do it. I have an old Nokia 2600 that looks like shit. I bring it into class on the first day and tell the students its my wife's phone and I'm looking to get her a new one. I then ask the students to show me their phones...its amazing how few of my students have phones in my classes.
If a student's phone does ring, I give them a chance to explain because at times its been their parents letting them know they're at the school to pick them up, etc. If the explaination isn't good enough, I announce my wife has gotten a new cell phone and I take it. After class I give it to the Mistress of Discipline and let her know what student in which class.
Do this 2-3 times in the beginning of the semester and the word spreads.
That's it. Classroom management 101. Establish the precedent from day one and never stray. I always negotiated the rules with a new class and put them, the rules, up on the wall. No arguments later.Quote:
Originally Posted by CSFFan
really outta have a school wide policy enforced by all teachers,
IMO - breaking a students phone is wrong and show the teacher has failed.
Agreed. In a different lifetime I'd have to visit schools. First question was "Can I see the whole school discipline policy, please?"Quote:
Originally Posted by kingwilly
Essential for effective management.
The OP didn't appear to be at a Thai school.
I teach adults in Thailand at a government institution. Unlike many of my Thai teaching colleagues, I couldn't care less if students answer their mobile telephones during a lesson. My simple & upheld proviso is that the ringing of the phone must not disrupt the class & nor may they speak for any length of time (apart from answering the phone). They must leave the classroom if they wish to conduct a telephone conversation.
If they wish to have their lesson interrupted & thus miss out on part of the lesson, it's their business as their actions may be reflected in their results.
Cellphones should be switched off during lessons, and only used for emergency contact outside lessons.
Hope you are keeping well,
All the Best
Bill Z
It's when you do a 'teach the teachers' novelty class once a year and one just sits there nattering away into hers, is when it gets on my tits.
Only happened once. Didn't happen again.
Never mind, you've a year to go until the next class.Quote:
Originally Posted by Chairman Mao
Captain Cook never had a cell phone
Small jammer units are cheap and readily available to be stored in a teachers bag next to ones luncheon box rendering all comm's in the classroom strangely inoperable.
This term I've screwed up and thrown away a kid's newspaper up that he was reading during a voluntary IELTS class I teach (meaning the daft prick didn't need to be there so could have noisily rustled his newspaper at home) and lobbed another kid's bottle of juice (that he kept annoyingly tapping on his desk) out of the window.
Haven't yet smashed up a mobile phone or PSP - building up to that! :)
Getting tired of Asian uni kids behaving like fucking 8 year olds back home might :deadhorsebig:
One wanker I taught (a teacher doing his Master's) sat there pissing about on his laptop, interrupting occasionally to comment on such weighty issues as women with dark sakin.Quote:
Originally Posted by Chairman Mao
Then had the fucking audacity to come on to me after he'd just come out as a batty man.
Gotta love teaching in Thailand.
I did. So much so I'm now teaching in China!
and you think behaving like that a fucking 8 year old yourself is gonna help??Quote:
Originally Posted by kwai73
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role modeling people.
Not really.Quote:
Originally Posted by kingwilly
Felt better after though.
I may well switch to teaching children rather than young adults, as I've got no problem with children acting like children. It's young adults acting like children that I can't abide.
In any case, it's not like I hadn't explained my rules to the 'kids'
so that makes it ok.Quote:
Originally Posted by kwai73
i hope one of their parents busts your ass or sues you.
disgrace
If you say so mate!
No way should a teacher that should be leading his/her students by example show such uncontrolled behavior.
I would of impounded the telephone until the end of the term and then handed it back then. Would of caused untold embarassment and inconvenience to the child and when he had to explain to his/her parents where the telephone is.
True. But you never know, maybe it'd been happening every day for the last 3 months or something.
We all have our limits, don't we?
BTW am I the only one who spent the first 20 seconds or so thinking our hero the phone smasher was speaking English in a thick Glaswegian accent? I finally twigged that it's Portuguese or something! :)
Yes we do, but if I did something liek that in a class, I wouldnt be boasting about it on an internet forum.Quote:
Originally Posted by kwai73
smashing things in class is just bullying behaviour, trying to force the kids to behave to your power.
I like to know about others , warts and all, so it's only fair I exhibit some of my own warts.Quote:
Originally Posted by kingwilly
Anyway I won't be doing what homeboy did in the vid. That took cojones!
bollocks, he is naught but a first class bully.Quote:
Originally Posted by kwai73
he's older than the kid. took nothing.
Well as someone said above, he could get twatted by a family member or friend.
If he's in Brazil it could get mental (they're a bit hot-headed aren't they?)
That's the one. He could get his ass busted!Quote:
Originally Posted by kingwilly
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Originally Posted by kingwilly
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https://teakdoor.com/images/td_defaul...tation_neg.gif Cell phone in class 22-12-2008 01:12 AM johnbkk christ, you talk a lot of shit! here, you dropped this
interesting to see you privately disagree john. are you a teacher? do you rule by fear?
surely your students deserve better...
My comments in blue.
If you haven't noticed, Thai "students" are treated like children until they are well into their twenties. Thai culture is not good.Quote:
Originally Posted by kwai73
Are you lucky enough to teach Chinese students WITHOUT cameras watching you?Quote:
Originally Posted by kwai73
I sincerely hope that you don't teach younger children. You may well bring into the world, people like yourself...intolerant control freaks.Quote:
Originally Posted by kwai73
No you weren't. In an earlier post, I said that it wasn't a Thai class. An idiot could tell that it was a Spanish based language.Quote:
Originally Posted by kwai73
So far, you have:Quote:
Originally Posted by kwai73
a] not displayed any tolerance toward students, apart from "20 seconds".
b] taught students how to be control freaks.
c] inferred that you have a violent & aggressive nature.
d] displayed a total disregard for private property.
e] confirmed that you have inadequate communication abilities.
f] inferred that you are God in the classroom.
I must say that you sound like an old Thai teacher.
I'm glad you're in China but I'm not glad for the Chinese who may have to "TOLERATE" your shit.
Strong suggestion: Stop teaching & get a job in the American military. I think you'd excel in torture...or something like that.
Colour me spastic!Quote:
Originally Posted by mikehunt
I don't think I can 'teach' or 'unteach' 18 and 19 year olds anything. The dye is already cast. I just try to curb the most 'raised by wolves' excesses of my classes!Quote:
Originally Posted by mikehunt
I'm happy to admit to not being the finished article as a human being. I haven't , as such, reached enlightenment!Quote:
Originally Posted by mikehunt
And you?
Comments in blue.
I think that I & others would be wasting their/our time trying to talk sense to you.Quote:
Originally Posted by kwai73
Instead of taking half-arsed measures, why don't you go and join a military force where you can really inflict your pain upon others.
I hope you learn to teach someday.
Cheers Mike. You're lovely you are! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by mikehunt
I'm old, fat, scared of physical confrontation, and could never serve unquestioningly. My country right or wrong - :tosser1:Quote:
Originally Posted by mikehunt
Why expend the energy on all those wasteful keystrokes when you could've just said "pathetic"?Quote:
Originally Posted by kwai73
Anyway, you could've fooled me about being scared of physical confrontation since you seem to be so confrontational i.e. "screwing-up newspapers" & "throwing drink bottles out of the window etc".
At least wanking is enjoyable. Being a twit (like you) must be hell. It reminds me of an old scout song, "Nobody likes me. Everybody hates me. Think I'll go & eat worms." Oops!! This must be a paedophile song.
Cool. I'm pathetic.Quote:
Originally Posted by mikehunt
Isn't it! Thank God for the old five knuckle shuffle :)Quote:
Originally Posted by mikehunt
Only time I've ever done anything bad like that was when I tore a students assingment in two and threw it out the window.
It was meant to be on a genetic disease. an easy task. find the disease, a photo of it's effects, was it dominant recessive etc. Basically a small information poster, probably no more than 20 words on it.
She googled something and printed off an advert for some sports sale or something like that and handed it in.
I took one look at it ripped it up and threw it in the bin. Asked her where her assingment was. Told her to bring it tomorrow to class. She bubbled and cried. Ran to her mum who complained to the school.
Gave the girl another chance to do the same thing and again came back with the same sort of googled crap, no effort nothing.
Just put a big fat red zero on it for her and that was that.
After that though her mum tried to take her out of the program and into another one in a neighboring town. She couldn't pass the entrance test and was quietly slipped back into ours.
Nasty piece of work her mum was.
but it wouldn't make much of a video clip for on the internet now would it?Quote:
Originally Posted by Loy Toy