Positive approach to teaching
My first job was teaching in a residential school for so-called “maladjusted boys”. Day one was pretty chaotic. My class of eight boys, who were in care, had every reason not to trust a new teacher. They were resistant to learning and fearful of failure. Better to make the teacher fail!
After a lot of raised voices and a few thrown chairs, the cleaner kindly said to me at the break: “Try not to shout dear, the calmer you are, the calmer they become.” These were wise words which I never forgot and things got better by the day.
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