3692. On Creating a Nice Atmosphere in Class where Everybody Can Work

 Do our kids need limits? Our kids at school I mean? Yep, they do. They cannot do all that pleases them and all that they may think of. If you’re a teacher, you may understand what I mean. 

Also all of you readers have passed through school, at any grade it may be. 

But they are limits that protect those school kids. They are there for their sake. For them to learn. And for them ultimately to be happy. Who doesn’t remember and recall some good teachers we have had, when we were young, or at any other crucial age? All of us can remember that teacher who influenced great when I was a schoolboy or a schoolgirl. They become beacons for our lives. Maybe we are not aware how much they intervened in our lives. Or perhaps we are. 

Furthermore, any teacher of kids needs to set some rules for his or her young students, don’t they? To begin with, some days ago a rural doctor who is a friend of mine and he knows some of the high school teachers of those small towns where he works, he told me that how are the kids going to obey and listen to them if they dress badly? I mean kind of too casual. This doctor I think wears a tie at his office to attend his patients. Do our school teachers have to wear a tie? Well, you know, just think of that, I only try to make you think. I don’t wear one when I teach my adults, yet I try and wear clean and ironed clothes, more or less, for my students deserve much from me. A lot from me. 

Plus if those teachers just let their students to address them as if they were their buddies … Perhaps they ought to tell them to please call them by usted, the formal way of addressing a second person in Spanish. Let’s just think of all this, and even more with the times we now have. 

So the teacher has to set some rules, basic ones so that those kids may actually learn a lot in those dear classrooms of ours. So we need limits. All of us. Perhaps when you’re a grownup you don’t need too many rules, because you are expected to know how to behave in a classroom, and we can’t play with our professional work. 

Some weeks ago I saw a lecture by María Calvo Charro on TV. And I wrote as a note that both mom and dad are necessary at home for the kids. And she put that mom is needed and she is more prone to hug the kids, but also those children – and teens – do need the father’s force and fortitude, and for him to set some norms at home – those kids do need him. 

Here we are. Thus we do need the moral authority of the teacher, whosoever he or she is. And at home we also need the strong figure of the father. Have a nice day.

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