Teaching kids is mechanical. When you have a good class, you know when the beats are coming. Enthusiasm levels can be manipulated - carrot and stick, carrot and stick.
Really, this is the best possible scenario. Classes can breeze by with minimal amounts of cognition. Which is great in the short term, but after a few months, leads to more dangerous thoughts re: personal stagnation.
To combat these occupational hazards, one must develop strategies that provoke unexpected, yet acceptable behaviours, attitudes, and beliefs. My solution is to lie to my students.
After a banal scheduling discussion with one of my co-workers, a student asked me, "Teacher, who is the boss?"
Most people who aren't socialists or separatists know there is only one correct answer to this question.
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