feel I’ve let my class down (teacher)
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feel I’ve let my class down (teacher) I’ve posted this in r/teachers aswell I’ve been teaching for 25 years and this has happened a couple of times back in my first 10 years of teaching. I have a stutter and can usually control it somewhat well but not today. It’s the end of the first term this year and I was teaching a lower set class. I wasn’t anxious or anything, no reason to start stuttering so much and it got to the point I could hardly get a full sentence out. My stutter makes me repeat either the first word (sometimes couple of words) or the first sound. Usually I can battle through bad moments but today was the worst I’ve had in a while, I feel ridiculous but the icing on the cake was the look on a students face the snigger that came from him when I got really stuck on a sentence. It was only ten minutes before the end of the day so I just stopped attempting to get that sentence out and told them that they could pack their belongings and leave early. I just feel terrible because most of the class are excellent students, they all saw what had happened and I got overwhelmed with embarrassment. There’s two days before the end of this term and I have them for one more lesson on Friday, I’m wondering wether to address the matter or leave it.