Wild Korean’s

I was under the assumption that Korean’s and most Asian children are amazingly well behaved and I am going to say that I disagree. None of my students are ridiculous wild but they are no different then any child one would find in the rest of the world. The reason I bring this up is because earlier this week I came down with a cold and lost my voice or really my voice became very strained. Now if this assumption were to be true it would be fairly easy to teach these Korean angels because I would never have to raise my voice, the students would sit perfectly in their sets and be nothing but good listeners. Oh how I wish this was to be true because it is very hard getting your students attention when you have no voice. Truth be told, I spend most of my days talking in a very loud voice because these students are rowdy and well I hate to admit it but wild at times. It doesn’t help that there is a language barrier but these kids have a hard time remaining in there seats, shutting up when I the teacher is talking and simply following order. The first five or so minutes go really smooth and then once we break into our lesson activity they start talking, moving around and simply not following instruction. Now I love each one of my students and they are all amazing children but it is exhausting having to talk over these children. It is even more exhausting when I am sick and in no mood to deal with this nonsense. I can only hope that with time and discipline there will be a day when I don’t spend most of the day speaking in a loud tone. As for now I continue to remind myself to stay calm and assure myself that in this chaos the students are learning something.