624. A nice atmosphere to learn
One day teacher of English A said to teacher of English B, “We are educating our students, whatsoever we teachers do or not do in the classroom. We have our students in our hands. And education has a lot to do with the everyday living inside the classroom, which one becomes like our second home.
So, little everyday things are of a paramount importance for educating, and for teaching/learning English besides.
I know a colleague of ours who decided to start to take care of little things in her classroom.
There were scraps of paper on the floor, desks with scribbled stuff on the boards. She thought this would be not educative and be of some difficulty for working.
She thought of various points to take care of: a new plastic trash, setting an example of picking up pieces of paper and then, with that gained moral authority telling someone please to pick other pieces eventually drop, giving thanks to the teacher, a tidy bookcase in the classroom – explaning and struggling each week about one specific point -, listening to who’s speaking, desks in neat rows, sitting nice, a natural greeting before and after the class, finishing the begun tasks and not giving them up before the first hardship would appear, small jobs.
The point was respect and deference with one another, those attitudes firstly with the teacher herself. The atmosphere became an easier one for working, and even with some cozy stroke among the girls and the teacher, adequate for learning.” / Photo from: trak in
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