There was a specific situation that paid my attention this week. It doesn’t have to do with my English lessons but with the students as a group. When I went to the school on Tuesday I got there and I was informed that the 1st year of high school was under a punishment. They all has to stay 7.5 more minutes in the classroom during the 15 minutes break, only two students were allowed to go out (Javiera and Nicolas), I said OK, no problem. When I went to the classroom to meet the students I asked them why were they under a punishment? They told me that it was because “somebody” had did something nasty to a classmate (Javiera), I asked what was that nasty thing and two girls told me that someone had filled Javiera’s backpack with spitting and wet toilet paper. I was amazed and I asked who was or were that persons… they told me: nobody knows…so the whole class is under a punishment except for Javiera and Nicolas.
After I heard all this I started to think and I realized this class is a class that apparently gets on very well, but there are always some situations in which the students work as a group to harm some weak classmate. These students protect each other, so the guilty ones are never found. They always do this, but I thought that it wasn’t so serious. This class has a new head teacher and she doesn’t know them very well so it’s difficult for everyone to find out what is happening to them this year.
This case made me reflect on the fact that it is very important to know very well the students, their personalities and if they are good or bad leaders in the class since nowadays bulling is present almost everywhere and we as teachers must be aware of this problem.
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It´s a pity. Have you talked about this event with your guide teacher? Have you asked for some advice on this respect? And finally, have you had a conversation with the students and let them know what you think about?
ResponderEliminarYes, I talked to my guide teacher las time and she told me that it was a pitty that in that class there were cases of that kind, that all the teachers and the school's staff were working on those situations and that we as teachers must be aware of every thing that happen inside and outside of the classroom. I also talked to the students but they refused to tell me the truth and they told me those thing are only jokes, nothing to worry about!!!! I told them that sometimes they see and do some things thinking that are jokes .. very funny jokes .. but for the rest of the studentd or for the students that are affected by the jokes it is not funny, so they must think about their jokes before makeing them.
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