#rough class

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Teachers! Help!

I am at a loss with one of my classes. As a whole, they refuse to follow procedures and expectations. I have tried everything I know to try- reteaching procedures, explaining the reasoning behind them, practicing them repeatedly, calling and conferencing with more parents than I have in the rest of my career combined, calling team meetings to discuss expectations, positive incentives and rewards, revoking privileges, different styles of teaching and activities- nothing seems to last longer than the immediate class period. The next day I'm starting all over again. On top of that, this class fights. Constantly. I hear "shut up" and "no, you shut up" and "get off my stuff" and "give that back" and "she hit me" constantly. I can't seem to get through to them about compassion. Or the difference between tattling and important information.

My other classes are fine. I can't keep going the way I've been going with this one. I don't know what to do. What are your thoughts and ideas, Tumblr education?

I can't figure out how to let EVERYONE reply to that with the new format. So send any and all suggestions to my ask box please. Thanks :)

[ivoshkov-herondale-feels]

had a rough day for photography class

i think i deserve a Robert Downey Jr. marathon.

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Yoga : 5/23

I was a few minutes late to yoga this morning but it's usually a class that starts late and ends late. Of course not today. I was able to sneak in to a spot but instead of the normal few beginning moments of breathing & discussion the class was already in motion. And I was a step behind. 

Not only did I feel out of synch but they were doing lunges ... my bruised knee was not a fan. Not of crow which followed either. 

Maybe it's because it was an off practice for me, but even the teacher, who I normally love was unsettling. Because I hadn't had a chance to settle on to the mat and get into the flow her instructions came across as pushy. 

Not to mention the sweat! I knew I was going to make use of my towel when I was already suffering from the humidity from my apartment. At first I thought it was just me struggling, though I could collectively hear the class struggling. While the guy next to me seemed as cool as a cucumber, I noticed a guy a few mats down dripping and the girl next to me with a soaked shirt. I then realized that I wasn't the only one slightly suffering.

Sometimes a yoga class is going to suck. Sometimes the class will be over (though it feels like forever) before you ever get in sync and you'll walk away with no deep lesson, no freeing thought, no opening movement. Sometimes you leave just knowing that there will be another class (maybe same time, same teacher, just a different day) that will bring you back.