So, I gave out my first silent lunch today. Students have received silent lunch when I noticed them doing something inappropriate and told Mr. Dorray about it, but I never gave the punishment. Today I did.
I was telling the student to stop talking to other students behind him and turn around. I'd told him a few times to focus on his work, but he just wasn't working. So, I told him to turn around, then to put his book on the table, and then to scoot his chair so that he was sitting at the desk. He did so, but grudgingly and then mumbled under his breath, "you're not even a teacher." I asked him to repeat himself, but he wouldn't. I didn't think I could let that slide, so I told him that I was a teacher and that he would have silent lunch tomorrow.
When I told Mr. Dorray about the incident he said that giving silent lunch for that situation was good, and that I did need to make sure they understand that they have to listen to me.
2 comments:
You always were "the mean one." But seriously, good job standing up for yourself.
I am glad I have had experience working with teens from managing at the theatre. It is helping me know what to just move on from and what I have respond to. I figured that questioning my ability to make students listen to me was not something I could let slide. If he could pretty much tell me I have no power and I do nothing about it, then he is right.
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