um when i was a teacher whilst trying to explain a tricky concept i accidentally locked a pupil
in a cupboard david's team okay what what was the concept was it the concept of imprisonment
it was uh it was a maths lesson um i was teaching the topic of probability
the chance what's the chances of getting locked into the cupboard
well that was uh that became an extra an extra learning objective
um that was that wasn't the main one i was trying to get across the idea of um narnia yeah
i'm trying to get them to understand how to explain the concept of probability so
the idea was that if you had like an alien arrive on earth how would you explain
probability which would be the first thing you'd do wouldn't you yeah no actually the laser
down let me talk to you about max yeah rumish what age group was this so this is year eight
so okay 11 12 years old so um what happened was is i needed somebody to pretend to be an alien
okay so i selected a child from the class i didn't just go out and look for one
how did you select did you go for the little green one with the pointy ears
well no actually what it was i thought i was doing a good thing because you know you get
some kids that are sort of um they have problems making friendships and stuff like that and i had
a kid like that in the class so i thought i'd bring him out of himself you chose the
kid that got bullied to be the alien so the rest of the cars can point at him and go alien
i mean to be fair i thought we're just playing a game i didn't realize it's an offstead inspection
so basically what was i was trying to make it realistic
okay so i said to him why don't we pretend this cupboard is like a transformation chamber you know
you go in the cupboard you go in you go in as a boy oh it's just it's just getting worse isn't it
one of my kids came home from school and described this scene i'd be down that school like a shot
how surprised would you then be to see that teacher on the bbc a few years later
in the current climate not surprised at all
basically i said to him you're going to go into the cupboard you're going to transform
into an alien what was the concept again you're trying to teach the kid probability
probability yeah we haven't got to that a bit yeah we're going to find out what he's doing
now we're trying to find out how to transform to an alien that's what we're looking forward
to we're looking forward to him coming out i mean if we never get that far dude
what am i talking about at the next ofsted inspection a small skeleton was discovered
and they said well the chances of that and they've said well you should ask her
what are you going to do that's what i want to know if he hadn't got locked in what were
you going to do the idea was is that he was going to come out and and be the alien and
then i was going to get different kids to i mean different kids too don't lose confidence
i was going to get different kids to explain to him what probability was so
he was going to be like the dummy alien and then like he'd be like
and then never to be bullied again look i can't not fill in that i'm a little bit
under attack here it's all right because you may be lying in which case you're off the hook
why does it help to understand probability to get children to explain it to an alien so basically
in order to to get the idea that a kid understands a concept them explaining it and that explanation
being clear illustrates that they have learned it completely so romney you've sort of left it
he's in the cupboard what he got in yeah what happened i realized i couldn't open the door
to let him out so i sort of started looking around for other teachers to help me and
they said actually the cupboards it can be open from the inside the problem came when i said to
him you're gonna have to come out the cupboard uh just open it from the inside and he replied
because he was being an alien right so yeah that extended the problem and he was in there for 20
minutes so he came out in the end he eventually opened he came out and well the lesson was ruined
what are you thinking david i do know that ramos used to be a maths teacher oh okay right so
and that you know education's lost or show businesses gain
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there were so many gaps in the story i just yeah the story wasn't really adding up right yeah
i think we think it's a lie do we think it might yeah it's a lie for all of you okay
uh ramesh truth or lie the story is uh true
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