That ladies & gentlemen is the core of a positive student-teacher relationship.
You Make A Difference
I know that this blog is about behaviour management & looking at tactics tips & tricks to make you the 'superhero of your classroom' - but let's park that for a second.
Your job is to change young people's lives for the better. Never forget that.
I believe that teaching is the best job on the planet. Seriously, I’m not kidding. You will never meet more interesting people than the students in your care.
For our students, our classrooms are more than places where we write the date and answer questions on Page 37 in the Big Yellow Textbook. Sometimes it can mean more than you will ever know.
Our classrooms can be places of discovery and wonder. Places where our students can discover their own unique voices and places where they can discover their passions that can change their lives forever.
Sadly for our more disadvantaged students, your classroom can be a place of escape from the terrors that wait for them outside school or at home.
A place of reckoning, where they may have a conversation with someone that could stop them walking down a dark path into drugs, death or despair. Or simply a place where they can keep warm as the central heating has broken and Grandad can’t afford to get it repaired.
All these things happen in your classroom and you have a front-row premium seat.
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