Or else.Īlarmed, the kids sought the help of Detective Mc Smogg. With a snappy, no-nonsense voice, she demands that work be done pronto! “Open those arithmetic books!” Kids were put to work, loaded down with homework, no story hour, sums on the board. Who is Miss Viola Swamp? Despite Miss Nelson’s syrupy-sweet voice, her pleasant disposition, and her overall rosy-cheeked, golden-haired goodness – the kids refused to do their lessons, whispered amongst themselves, giggled loudly, squirmed and made faces: simply put, they would not “settle down.” Hence, Miss Nelson decided that … “Something will have to be done.”Ĭue: Miss Viola Swamp’s entry: AHA! Miss Nelson's Substitute for the Day.Ĭlearly, she is everything that Miss Nelson is not. How could kids possibly be misbehaved during storytime? I can not, for the life of me, fathom that. While it is technically meant to give young children some kind of perspective in the way that they should (or should not) behave in class – it is also a lovely book that I can share with young teachers who would more likely laugh uproariously at how ‘Miss Nelson’ dealt with her problem class. They were the worst-behaved class in the whole school.Īs I was reading this, I just finished my Teaching Practicum Supervision and I thought that it is the perfect book to introduce to my Classroom Management course this coming semester. The kids in Room 207 were misbehaving again. Which is this book’s essence as could be found in the first page: Our Poor Miss Nelson at a total loss. Apart from delivering subject content meaningfully and engaging students actively in class, one other core issue is classroom management.
Being a teacher educator, I come across different ranges of expertise in my teaching here in Singapore: from the idealistic, wide-eyed, novice teachers to the really polished, more experienced, master teachers who can share their lessons with their eyes closed. This book resonated with me on so many levels. Sweet, Pleasant, Loving Teacher = Naughty, Troublesome, Misbehaving Students. I just knew that the mystery behind the missing teacher is one of the perfect picture books for our ‘Mystery’ theme of the month – not necessarily a ‘whodunit’ but a ‘whoeezeet?’ When I googled “Miss Nelson is Missing”, I got so many hits ranging from teacher resources, to possible classroom activities, to various play adaptation, to video clips of theater companies that showcased the story in their stage – that I was literally overwhelmed. This book, initially published in the 1970s, has quite a HUGE following. Asian Festival of Children’s Content (AFCC).Literary Voyage Around The World Reading Challenge 2018.
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