3680. How to Manage Classroom Behavior and Not to Die in the Attempt

 We teachers have to manage classroom behavior, okay. But more important is to have our dear students to work and learn and study and read and … okay too. We have to keep an eye on our students to avoid they would be disruptive. 

However, as well we have to trust and confide in them. It’s a balance, you know. Unless we trust them, we cannot educate them well, or maybe at all. 

If we trust those young people, well, you know, they will grow into better persons. We need to be accomplices to them. They play in our team, so as to say. 

In principle we will believe what they tell us: everyone deserves the right to be believed. It seems better we could be sometime deceived than not to trust them. Well, we must not be naïve. But let’s accept what they tell us. If one student lies to me, I will have to teach him how to say the truth, and why lies are no good. Remember we are educating them, and their parents have entrusted them to us to be raised in an honorable way. 

When you confide in someone that person may likely feel fine. And they will likely in that way play in our team. The teacher should not be like a dog after the cat. 

All we do in the classroom may educate them … or otherwise we will be ruining their lives. 

Furthermore if we conduct ourselves that way, those students may exploit their creativity. But to exploit and enhance and expand their creativity, also they need to receive a lot before, so they may have a storage of ideas and knowledge to exploit. No knowledge gotten, no creativity may be developed. This latter idea was taken from Gregorio Luri, a Spanish teacher, pedagogue, and philosopher. Well, also the first idea – we must trust our students – has been taken from someone else. 

So let’s remember our students must receive a lot of input from their teachers: knowledge, notions, ideas, thinking, etcetera. 

One last word: lately more and more experts say that it’s better to utilize paper books than to be all day long with screens. As well our dear students have to learn how to write by hand so they develop their handwriting. Have a merry Christmas and a happy new year!