lesson planning is one thing - I do it quite half-assed actually. the process of making lessons is no longer relevant to me now that i've been assigned meaningless 'teach out of the book' responsibilities.

lesson planning for a demo lesson is quite possibly the most showy, fake circus act I've ever been apart of. Absolutely nothing about a demo lesson reflects how my average class goes. Middle school boys do nothing but perfect their rock-paper-scissors techniques, or comment on some aspect of my lesson that could possibly be related to porn, or voice their independent opinions on something (which they need to work on because right now it's limited to that teenage 'Why should I do this?' and their only reasoning is 'Why should I?' over and over again). A demo lesson does not accurately reflect who they are because they are too active to sit and go through such a simple lesson most of the time.

i will set up a hidden camera and then you will see how disorganized a class of mine will go.