10 worse things that a teacher can do.

10 worse things that a teacher can do.

According to Melissa Kelly, we should be really careful in the way that we approach our students every day. She suggests that being aware in these items could help us to polish for better performance.

Yelling is a synonym of a losing battle. Some teachers lose their patience very easily and the result will come with a yelling response of their personal frustration. I do not know how it works with the students but sometimes I see them having an enormous satisfaction to see teacher's losing control. Others are offended by this yelling, but in either way that action is not healthy to anyone.

Avoiding to be friendly or even smile. Some teachers lose the fun part of being at school and act as it were the worse place to be. Already, in every single day we have multiple pressures around, and we tend to be highly alienated by the system. It looks then as if everybody were robots. We are not robots. We are human beings that feel and smile in life. We can be bitter on our way to work. The environment will be settled with a lot of negativity without a smile.

Being too friendly, some teachers become the buffoon of the class because he/she acts as best friend. This attitude can be dangerous because it could be appreciated as giving all the control to the student who later will treat you as a doormat.

Stopping the lessons to confront students for minor infractions is not the way we are going to make progress. Students will feel humiliated and consequently we are going to be suffering the consequences. Students will not learn what they need to learn. They will react and unfortunately the classroom could appear as an arena.

Inconsistency, this is one of the most important items to remain. We cannot make progress if our attitude toward what we are teaching according to a lesson plan or daily goals to achieve are not made true. If we are too weak to be consistent in our rules or if we treat different our students for what they believe or do. If we set a certain rules we have to be conscious that those ones are fair and realizable. Once we have our rules settled we must follow with out breaking them. For example, if we say that some day is the deadline for turning homework, that is the last the time to do it.

Setting unrealistic rules will not make a difference. Student easily can overpower the inconsistency of maintaining them.

The last link and one of the most important. Gossiping about other faculty members or students. That is the most unethical thing that we must to avoid in order to have a great environment. Gossiping is one of most dangerous acts that a teacher can do in.

This links seem to be silly, but these things actually happens and if we put strong attention to what we are doing and how we are doing it in our class we are going to improve our performance enormously.