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I feel sick every time I have to take the class anywhere. I’m scared that I’ll lose a student or that they will start being loud and annoying other classes who are working quietly.
Answer
Moving around the school with your students can be stressful. Often, you ar ewaling past classrooms and concerned about disrupting other classes or worried that the head teacher will see a student misbehave and decide that you’re a terrible teacher as a result! Remember that each member of staff have all been there (including the head) and have all worried, at sometime or another, that their class was the ‘naughtiest in the school’ and they must be ‘the worst teacher’. A few things you can do to ensure a smooth transition between classroom and PE is: tell the students your expectations explicitly before you leave the classroom, praise students who are following the plan, buddy up students in advance so that they know who they’re walking with and ensure you are strategic about who you pair students with, strategically place certain students at the beginning or end of the line so you can quietly reind them of expectations if needed. It is recommended that you remind the students of expectations each time, until it becomes the norm for them. It is also worth practising the trip a few times before you have to do it ‘for real’. Doing this in the first few days and weeks of teaching sets the expectation going forward.
