Some will watch the teacher in the video above and think that he looks soft, weak and defeated. I think he handled the situation brilliantly.
Forget about classroom management gurus and 6 step strategies for classroom control, when a student decides that he detests you enough to blow cigar smoke in your face, there’s nothing you can do about it.
The kid in this video is likely to get in a world of trouble. But if I were the principal, I wouldn’t stop there. I would happily punish the entire class for their laughter and encouragement. Shame on them!
ISIS is evil, and it can only take an evil organisation to make teachers the target of terror. Teachers almost universally choose their profession based on the desire to give back and make an indelible contribution. To paint this as an act of intolerance or brainwashing is astonishing in its lack of perception and capacity to see hatred in something which is plainly good.
The 45-year-old teacher was stabbed in the side and throat while preparing for his class at a primary school in Aubervilliers in northeastern suburbs of Paris, but his life was not in danger, a police source said.
The attacker was dressed in painter’s overalls and a balaclava and arrived without a weapon but grabbed what appeared to be a box cutter that was lying in the classroom as well as a pair of scissors.
According to local prosecutors the man shouted: “This is Daesh. This is a warning.”
Daesh is another name for IS.
The brief exchange was reported by a witness working inside the school.
I really loved the first part of the teacher’s response. It is balanced, persuasive and strong. I wasn’t as big a fan of the sarcasm at the end. I don’t blame him for sending up the parent, but I’m afraid he may have undermined the points he so succinctly made early in his text.
A teacher gets stabbed by a crazed student and 69 of his student friends signal their approval:
A judge has blasted the ‘sick’ people who ‘liked’ a Facebook post of the 14-year-old boy who stabbed a supply teacher in a racist attack.
The boy, who the judge ruled cannot be identified, was overheard calling Vincent Uzomah a ‘b******’ and a ‘n*****’ before he knifed him in the stomach at Dixons Kings Academy in Bradford in June.
In a message ‘liked’ by 69 people, he then boasted on Facebook: ‘The motherf***** getin funny so I stick the blade straight in his tummy.’
Passing sentence yesterday, Judge Jonathan Durham Hall QC condemned the boy’s post and those who ‘liked’ it as ‘sick’.
The judge said: ‘It’s an appalling reflection on a small microcosm of our society that within minutes or hours after posting, 69 people “liked”. How sick.’
The judge described the attack as ‘utterly shocking’ and told the boy he had ‘deliberately and callously’ stabbed his teacher.
He said: ‘You went to your school armed with a knife with a significant blade intending, when the opportunity presented, to stab your teacher Vincent Uzomah.
Julia Kelly, who teaches English at a Cheshire high school, gets involved in as many active aspects of school life as possible, including becoming leader of all levels of the school’s Duke of Edinburgh’s Award programme. “This means I am away with the pupils for a number of weekends over the year, but it also means that the extra-curricular activities I’m involved in require me to be active and keep fit myself,” she says.
On expeditions Kelly carries around 14 kilos of kit and burns thousands of calories a day walking and tracking or training the students. She says that the scheme also inspired an interest in hillwalking, which is now an important part of her life.
If you can’t commit to the full award experience, don’t worry. Other teachers had some rather fun suggestions. Primary teacher Jackie Milne (@milne_stoney) does laps of the playground with students and Laura Dalchow, head of science at a Surrey junior school, enjoys a little dance every now and then with her class.
Get up early
Caroline Weale, who works at a secondary school in Yorkshire, suggests exercising early in the morning. She sets her alarm for 5.45am and swims or exercises in the gym for half an hour before getting ready for school.
She says her ability to rise and shine at the crack of dawn is down to pure will power – and lots of telling herself she is not tired. It was painful at first but now that her body clock is in a routine, it’s much easier. “My mind does not make as many excuses to lie-in as it used to.” After school, Weale says, exercise isn’t an option. “I have so much marking to do, so many parents to ring, so much data to input, meetings galore … so fitness training in the morning is the key.”
If you miss a session or wake up late Weale advises doing something a bit quicker like skipping for 10 minutes or doing a few sit-ups before breakfast.
Join a pay-as-a-go running group
This isn’t like gym membership, where you’re locked into a pricey contract for a year. The flexibility attracted teacher Charlotte Pearson. She says that if she has a last-minute lesson observation and can no longer make the club she doesn’t need to stress as she pays per session.
She joined a running group, mainly attended by women with busy lifestyles, three months ago and now goes twice a week. The group runs anything from five to 10 miles in each session.
“If I have a deadline to meet, then I just go to the next session. I’ve also made a lot of new friends, lost weight, toned up, dropped a dress size and I’m putting myself forwards for things that I never thought I’d do – like a half-marathon next month and also the Yorkshire marathon in October,” she says.
Not a fan of clubs and don’t have the time after work? Squeeze a running session into your lunch break, advises Leah Cunnah, who does a casual 5k between lessons.
Work exercise into your commute
Grammar school headteacher Chris Pyle fits exercise into his busy schedule by running to school. He jokes that you only need to run to work once a week for students to be convinced you’re at it every day. “They tend to find it amusing, obviously, but I like to think it sets a good example.”
Pyle says if you’re thinking of doing something similar you need to get organised: bring suits and shirts to work the night before or carry them in a running bag (which can lead to a lot of creasing). He also says showering on-site afterwards is essential, as is a plan for how you can bring in or take home marking.
Pyle says the logistics of running home are a bit easier, and it’s best to alternate running with cycling or other forms of exercise to make sure you don’t tire your legs out. For motivation he keeps a diary of the miles he has run.
“I think my most memorable run to school was being dive-bombed by a nesting buzzard as I took a short-cut past some woodland a few years ago. It was terrifying. I arrived at school feeling that I had already been through a life and death battle – ready to take on my challenging year 9s.”
He adds: “Teaching is very seasonal, and will always have some really busy periods, with reports deadlines or parents evenings. The important thing is just to keep putting on the running shoes on a regular basis, even if only for a very few minutes. You’re worth it.”
The penalty for assaulting a teacher should be greater than for assaulting a stranger on the street corner, because our education system is doomed unless teachers are given unprecedented protection from harm. I want the coverage of this student’s punishment to be just a prominent as his gutless body slam. Look at how vulnerable the teacher is. If he defends himself in any way he would have risked losing his career. What is a teacher supposed to do when they are being violently assaulted? Personally, I would let my student beat me up. My job is worth more to me than my medical record. I want every impressionable student to watch such offenders get significant sentences for their inexcusable crimes:
A YEAR nine student in the US has been arrested after he allegedly slamming his teacher to the floor during class — over a mobile phone.
Police said the New Jersey high school physics teacher confiscated the student’s mobile phone during class which led to the attack.
The attack, captured on another video phone, shows the teen wrapping his arms around the 62-year-old teacher and pushing him into an empty desk.
The exchange quickly escalated when the boy wrestled the man across the classroom and slammed him to the floor.
In the video, the teacher initially tries to continue talking to the class but is later heard yelling what sounds like, “Let me go”.
Other students in the class move out of the way but do not intervene and finally yell for security once the teacher is on the ground.
I hope this doesn’t get dismissed as a kids’ fantasy. I really worry about my fellow colleagues. Teaching should be a far safer profession than it currently is:
THREE nine-year-old students have been caught plotting to kill their teacher with hand sanitiser.
The plot was foiled when concerned parents and a school board member became aware of the plan reported WGRZ.
Word initially got out when the students told their classmates about their evil plot.
The students said they were going to cover the classroom with hand sanitiser after they found out their female teacher was highly allergic to antibacterial products.
In a report provided by the Genesee County Sheriff’s Department, they said “the suspects made comments to other students that they were going to kill [the teacher] by putting antibacterial products around the classroom”.
When youth officers interviewed the suspected students with their parents and school officials present one student stated that her teacher “yells at us and that the class has problems with her.”
In the end police handed the matter back over to the school to deal with.
“When we realised they never followed through with it and they told us they had no intention of following through, we said there was not much we can do,” Genesee County Sheriff Chief Investigator Jerome E. Brewster told The Buffalo News.
How on earth are we going to attract the best teachers to a profession that is so appallingly bad at protecting the health and safety of its own? Teaching, especially in the upper years, can be an extremely daunting and scary proposition. I don’t care what his excuse is, this student needs to be made an example of:
A high school freshman has been caught on video allegedly punching his substitute teacher and putting him in a headlock, because he said he couldn’t go to the bathroom.
The vicious attack on part-time faculty member and football coach Ron Santavicca at Gorton High School in Yonkers, New York, was recorded on a cell phone by another student in the hallway.
The 16-year-old boy, who has not been named, is seen hitting the teacher and swearing as he grabs his head.
Witnesses described how the teacher told the student he could not leave after asking if he could use the restroom – prompting him to react violently.
Senior Rocio Vidao told CBS New York: ‘The teacher was, like, telling him, “Don’t leave,” and then the kid came out of the classroom, and the teacher went after him, and that’s when the kid attacked the teacher.
‘It’s not supposed to be like that, you know. When a teacher says no, it’s supposed to be a no.’
Police were called in to investigate the incident, but the student has not been arrested or charged.
Yonkers School District have however suspended him for five days and have arranged a superintendent’s board meeting, according to NBC New York.
A complaint to the Anti-Discrimination Board against a teacher for doing nothing more than sitting a child to the front of the classroom is a move that should concern all teachers. What teacher hasn’t moved unfocused or unsettled children to the front of the classroom? Discrimination? I would argue that it is discriminatory not to do anything one can to help your students receive the best possible education.
A mother of a year 5 student in NSW complained to the Anti-Discrimination Board because his teacher made him sit up the front of the classroom and referred him to ESL classes.
Ling Mei Zhong complained that the state Department of Education and Communities had discriminated against her son because he is Chinese and wears glasses.
The President of the ADB declined to take action, saying the complaint of direct race discrimination lacked substance.
Ms Zhong took the matter to the NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal. During a hearing last month the boy’s teacher said she placed him at the front of the classroom so she could monitor him because he was distracting other students and was easily distracted himself.
The Tribunal heard the boy commenced at the unnamed government primary school in 2012 and was selected for an “opportunity class”. In May that year he was diagnosed with myopia (shortsightedness) and four months later he began wearing glasses.
Ms Zhong claimed the seating arrangement “adversely affected” and had a “bad effect” on her son. Additionally, she said it would have been a waste of time for him to attend ESL (English as a second language) classes because his English language skills were good.
At Ms Zhong’s insistence, the teacher changed the location of the boy’s desk in term 3 but Ms Zhong was not satisfied. She pulled him out of the school and enrolled him elsewhere.
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