What do you think about a teacher who won't say anything about their personal life, refuses interviews (even for the school newspaper) and doesn't like to have his picture taken. Meanwhile, this individual is very respected and outspoken, and his students think very highly of him. Do you think he is just that way, or is he hiding something?
2006-07-14 17:34:45 · 7 answers · asked by keylimechica18 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Teaching
I think he's someone who values his privacy.
Quit being paparazzi and leave the guy alone! Teachers are allowed their own private lives away from work.
Some people who go into teaching are actually very shy and private. He may be wonderfully social and outspoken in the school building... but that isn't really who he is "inside" himself. It's called "reaction formation" in psychology... doing the opposite of who you really are to build coping skills for it.
He (most likely scenario) is just a private person. Nothing to hide. Just private/shy.
On the other hand, if he is "hiding" something... perhaps he has a nontraditional religion, or has a long-time homosexual relationship, or something. Once again, if it doesn't impact his performance on the job, and he doesn't bring it into the classroom, then you shouldn't care about it. Actually, you should admire him for how well he can separate out his private from his professional life.
Remember, there is a full background check prior to hire... so he hasn't been in the courts for anything unacceptable to the teaching profession.
2006-07-15 03:15:38 · answer #1 · answered by spedusource 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Does talking about the teacher's personal life add to the lesson or distract from the lesson? For the most part it takes away from the lesson because the focus is not on the subject anymore but on the person. Part of being a professional means that you do your job without letting your personal feelings get in the way of completing and doing your best on the job. This is something younger students have yet to learn because they are still learning about their own emotions, feelings and other people.
Take a doctor for instance, does knowing what the doctor likes to eat or what he watches on tv, make a difference on what he prescribes for you? I certainly hope not.
So does knowing what your algebra teacher eat or watch on tv help you learn to solve an algebra equation? Or would you have just wasted valuable class time talking about the teacher when you should have been talking about how to solve the equation? Remember that you don't get tested over what the teacher likes to eat, but you do get tested over how to solve the algebra equation.
2006-07-15 03:43:51 · answer #2 · answered by Big Money 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My German teacher was exactly that way. It might have been underlying insecurity or just the way he works. Like some people can't stand to have their peas in their mashed potatoes, some people function better keeping different parts of their lives separate.
Think of it in terms of wardrobe: some teachers--or any people--need to wear a suit and tie to feel professional, to take on their work personas. They need that extra degree of formality to feel prepared to do their job. Other people, on the other hand, have no problem transitioning from one aspect of life to the other in the same ensemble. I think the second group of teachers is perhaps more self-aware, more able to define their position by how they act, not have their actions influenced by artificial constructs, such as wardrobe or professional distance from life outside school.
2006-07-15 03:24:27 · answer #3 · answered by Huerter0 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You know some outspoken people just don't like talking about themselves. They truly believe thier issues are important, not them.
And being a teacher and letting your students know too much of your personal life makes a teacher a little too vunerable.
2006-07-15 00:41:56 · answer #4 · answered by MOI 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In a sense, a gentleman is a person whose past is not known. One may not be as nice to some people as we are, if you knew something about their past.
If this teacher doesn't say anything about his past and it doesn't hinder his leassons, no problem.
If I were you, I will hope to read his biography some day.
2006-07-15 02:21:03 · answer #5 · answered by J_humor 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe because people think so much of him, he thinks that if he does an interview he'll say something that people don't like and he'll loose respect.
2006-07-15 00:38:28 · answer #6 · answered by In God's Hands 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
maybe thats a part of his life he wants to keep private from his students
2006-07-15 10:42:27 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋