Australian public school classrooms are not university lecture theatres, where students are motivated by HECS debt and you listen because you ...
You need to earn the right to yell at a student
Development, environment and life mean we can lose touch with teenagers and can often forget the fragilities and subtleties with which they live. Experienced teachers understand the classroom exists as a nebulous dynamic, students ready to laugh or cry, explode or revolt from as much as a spider on the wall, a static PA system or a squeaky door.