Working even better

Mental, barmy, foul, assholes, unteachable....well 11b5 are starting to grow on me. OK, most of them are functionally illiterate, most of them have the handwriting of a 9 year old, all have criminal convictions, are some sort of register and broadly .

They can also work out the general rule of an arithmetic sequence of decimal numbers (DECIMAL NUMBERS FFS!!!). It wasn't even that difficult-all you really needed to do was show a little bit of enthusiasm and not get wound up when they looked around you. Throw in a few moment of active learning, throwing a ball about to make sequence for example, direct the TA to deal with some of them, humour them ('The Don' Jerome) a little but more than anything just don't get wound up. If you do they'll sense blood and pounce on you.

I just wonder about the teachers who just shout at their students all day. Firstly they must have a rubbish day, most importantly they are making the kids mental, barmy, foul, assholes and unteachable.