3539. A Clever and Natural Way to Address Our Students

Now with remote teaching you teacher may be addressing each student, individually or otherwise by groups. Let’s hope the Covid-19 crisis be left behind and die out pretty soon. Thus I pray to God it would ensue in that way. 

Face-to-face teaching may be the normal thing anyway in most of our cases as teachers. And we may have small classes or large ones. 

What I intend to write today about is that it seems good to address and appeal to each student in a direct way. 

We may have quite many students in the classroom but it seems sound to address each student. We don’t address a mass of students but we want to teach each individual. 

Our students should not hide in a mass of people. We have otherwise to address each and every student. 

In order to do that way we can sweep the class of learners and thus appeal to each student’s responsibility when speaking to them. That is the only way we will achieve to teach and educate each student. 

As well we teachers should treat each student aside out of the classroom, as much as possible and not only through their tutors. Each teacher has to teach and educate his or her students. Not as a mass of people but as individual persons. 

This entails sweeping the class when speaking to them, also we can use gestures or other ways to address each person, always in a natural way. 

We teach and educate not anonymous masses yet single persons. 

As well when planning a lesson I should have my students in mind, even each one in as much as possible. We don’t teach or educate anonymous people but well-known single persons. If we do this way, likely our students will appreciate it. Some of the ideas for this post were taken from CARDONA, Carlos (2005) Ética del quehacer educativo. Madrid: Rialp. Page 30. 

I have talked about education: We teachers educate our students to help their parents -and secondarily their elder siblings- to educate their kids. Parents are the first ones that have to educate those kids, from when they're babies, and all along their youth, even later. Have a nice week.