Oh boy, middle school students evaluating a lesson is like a Mongolian evaluating a movie in Spanish. If the students are not entertained, you are a bad teacher. Trust me, I've been there and done that in China. To be fair, I do try to do edutainment and I struck out as much as I succeed when I do my lesson plans for the week. At one point I was so frustrated with my middle school students that I showed a movie for three weeks before I figured out something to get their attention back.

Added to that, I have done things at my middle school that I never dreamed of before. I've walked out of class because of the level of disrespect; I got in the face of a kid who was a spoiled little brat, and I even.... well never mind the last one but after that the kid never did that again.