Teachers often misinterpret the
misbehaviors of certain students of their classroom, the blame is always on the
students, they are not paying attention, they like to fool around, their
parents did him wrong by sending him to school, his friends are bad so he’s
bad, and many other claims. Before I first decided to pick teaching as a career
I was a student myself, and as a high school student I was somehow disruptive
one, nobody would ever suspect so, but I was. This didn’t mean that I was like
that to all teachers, and it didn’t mean that I didn’t have potentials for
learning. Now as I start to grasp the big picture of classrooms and the
interaction between students and their teachers, I became to realize that what
the teacher believed had be behave or not, her behaviors that reflected her
faith in each and every one of the students made us as students aware of the
effort she was making to make us learn better, for all the teachers out there,
I say: it’s you who define your students’ behaviors, and for all students: your
teachers work hard, so cut them a slack and just like they are patient with
you, you be grateful to them because it’s those teachers who helped raise you
up and guide you to be the person you are today.

When you hear teachers of the same class talking about students, you notice that the same students may be very disruptive in some classes, but disciplined in others. This goes back to the way the teacher deals with her students. If a teacher is respectful with her students, most of them will treat her the same way. What a teacher expects is what she gets and it is her job to convey her expectations to students.
ReplyDeleteI always hear about students who make their school "Suffer". The teacher's in the classroom describe them using different adjectives that could really touch students' hearts negatively. "Can't handle him, he is such a disruptive boy/girl, his parents didn't spend time teaching him respect, etc" Every student is a "sponge" and you shape his attitude as you prefer. The way you hold this "sponge" shapes its attitude.
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