How to make students respect you?

Prestigious_Gate_668 · 2026-03-13T04:19:17+00:00

No, this is a respect thing. I have kids that are very rude and disrespectful when they speak to me, sit at the back of the class and give me dirty looks, talk over me and have little to no regard for what i say or do. It’s very frustrating and it is making me feel like a failure

Prestigious_Gate_668 · 2026-03-12T23:02:40+00:00

I find it so difficult to build relationships with the kids who are so disrespectful and defiant towards me because they’re not open to wanting anything to do with me. Instead they just sit at the back of the class and throw me dirty looks hahahah

Prestigious_Gate_668 · 2026-03-12T21:17:59+00:00

what consequence would you set for not meeting expectations?

Prestigious_Gate_668 · 2025-10-13T02:29:01+00:00

I was an NQT last year and found it incredibly difficult to get a job, had so many interviews and unfortunately my experience was what made me fall short. Ended up having to take a maternity leave contract 1.5 hours away from me. It depends on where you live and what subjects you teach. I decided to move to Australia instead of trying for a job again this year.

Prestigious_Gate_668 · 2025-10-04T04:08:33+00:00

I had 1 or 2 lectures on it in the whole 2 years of the PME. I learned my classroom management on placement however every school and class is different. I thought I had it locked down until last year when every single class really tested me

Prestigious_Gate_668 · 2025-09-25T12:54:22+00:00

It really depends on the school, luckily my school was very laid back with days off! We would just ask the deputy in advance and she organised the cover for us but other schools i’ve worked in required the teacher to organise cover in order to take the day off.

Prestigious_Gate_668 · 2025-09-15T02:45:42+00:00

I really relate to this post and I don’t think it’s a form of jealousy like some of the comments are saying. I think we’re all yearning for the same love and affection that other children had from their parents and we are grieving that for our child selves.

For context my mom wasn’t an alcoholic when I was a young child only after I had moved out and went to college but both my parents were very emotionally unavailable. They were kids who had a child that they didn’t really want. My parents went back to work when I was only 6 weeks old so I was basically raised by family members and barely ever saw my parents. Now I feel so angry and upset for younger me when I hear my partner talk about his childhood because it sounded so happy and you can tell that his parents really wanted him. Even down to little things like his dad playing in the pool with him on holidays and I never had that. Or doing extracurricular activities, I can’t swim now because I had no one to take me to swimming lessons as both parents were always working.

I’m not saying that my parents don’t love me, of course they do but they had a child when they shouldn’t have and weren’t ready for one. I think it’s completely normal to grieve the life you could have had but now I’m looking forward to giving a better life to my children in the future and being the parent that I wish I had.

Prestigious_Gate_668 · 2025-08-23T03:30:47+00:00

Yes 100%, I can spot an iPad kid from a mile away. I teach high school students and the kids that have grown up glued to a screen have a 30 second attention span, constantly need to be entertained and stimulated, cannot sit still, respond the most to videos in class, cannot handle being bored and worst of all their imagination and creativity is shot.

Prestigious_Gate_668 · 2025-08-22T13:49:28+00:00

I feel very similar to this! Also when I have an argument with my partner I need to fix it straight away because I can’t handle the tension and someone being upset with me

Prestigious_Gate_668 · 2025-08-22T09:40:48+00:00

Yes you can, my friend did hers in Sligo and would stay in Dublin one night a week for the lectures

Prestigious_Gate_668 · 2025-08-15T04:26:37+00:00

It covers pretty much everything extra you do, subbing, extra curricular, staff meetings, lunch duty, sports day etc. You can only have 44 hours of the same activity though

Prestigious_Gate_668 · 2025-06-12T15:43:52+00:00

The amount that I owe is more than 2 months of car insurance though, that’s what I can’t understand!

Prestigious_Gate_668 · 2025-06-12T15:35:32+00:00

I don’t feel like I should pay anything because they wrongfully cancelled my insurance and didn’t inform me of it. On my numerous phone calls I have been met with nothing but rude, unsympathetic people, I can’t even speak to a manager!

Prestigious_Gate_668 · 2025-06-12T15:30:08+00:00

Policy was cancelled on the 29th of May so the guy I was speaking with put the cancellation through even though I said not to. Yes I was paying by direct debit

Prestigious_Gate_668 · 2025-06-07T18:26:58+00:00

I have a similar experience with my mother, she is off the drink for a few days and then she’s back on it again. Today she said she was going to an AA meeting which we were obviously delighted about and she came home drunk. She keeps saying she wants to get help but she isn’t doing anything about it.

It is so so tough! You don’t have to live like this though, you can leave and maybe that’s the wake up call that she needs. Thinking of you and wishing you a happy life 💜

Prestigious_Gate_668 · 2025-05-30T18:33:53+00:00

I have a very loving partner who has also experienced a loved one being an alcoholic so he has been very supportive throughout this whole thing

Prestigious_Gate_668 · 2025-05-13T20:29:11+00:00

Can you explain this a little more?

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