i am really worried about how to enter the class and give them a good impression and how should i have a start, should i be strict or be friendly?
2006-10-09 19:54:39 · 13 answers · asked by Yasir Saeed 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Teaching
Most first year teachers make the mistake of being too friendly and lenient the first days of class. It is important that you enter the classroom believing that you are their teacher, not their friend, and what you have to say is important. Be tough the first two weeks and then be more sociable and less strict.
2006-10-09 20:04:09 · answer #1 · answered by purelluk 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Don't worry. Whatever you think you did and how they interpreted it will be so far apart, that later you'll be told...hey on the first day...so and so happened. You'll say...that's not what I meant, but it will be too late. Half way through the year some kid said I got "smart" with her mama on the first day. All I said is "We don't have the workbooks yet. I'll let you know when we do." Somehow, that wasn't right!
One of my college teachers said he had a student who went all year and in the last week, he asked Who is Horatio? This was math. The teacher thought and thought but couldn't think of what was said. Turns out...Ratio is a math term and they studied it. But they never got to Horatio and the student was disappointed!
Just prepare them for the rules and the expectations you have. The first day is pretty laid back!
2006-10-10 03:05:08 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You have the rest of the year to make friends, and about a week to settle in their minds how they will approach your class. Kids respect someone who seems to know what they're doing and they don't need friends, they need adults who model behavior to them. Don't let them know you are inexperienced. Fake it. Just walk in acting like you own the place, because it's your classroom and you do.
Get there early and have the room set the way you want it. Greet them at the door; tell them where to sit; have an activity or prompt ready for them on the board so that the minute they enter the room, they are acting on your terms.
2006-10-10 03:37:10 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i used to be a teacher. started around my twenties. the main thing - u have to be confident. prepare each word u will say and each task u will give them and some extra for those extra smart. give them no time for being bored and noisy - if they have smth to do they don't stir and make noise - they re busy. and it doesn't matter whether u re strict or friendly as long as u re confident in what u re doing. but i would prefer to be strict - i have my friends already, i don't need my students to be my friends. im a teacher. good luck. remember - confident.
ps. as a former teacher i can tell u it will be a horrible mistake which u probably will never fix if u start smiling to them and let them ask questions and do not give them homework as the previous one suggested. do not do that. u re not their friend, u re a teacher. act like one
2006-10-10 03:11:03 · answer #4 · answered by jacky 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You should be both. Their is nothing worse than a teacher, this coming from me a student, that is too far up on each of those scales. Show them that you care about them, but also make sure they know where to draw the line, that you are not someone who the boundaries can be pushed on.
2006-10-10 03:02:39 · answer #5 · answered by caelyndunami 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, the most basic thing is to smile at the students.
And then introduce yourself.
Do not start teaching yet. Instead maybe for the first period, you can tell them stories or your experiences?
Don't give them homework.
Yes, be friendly. =P Good luck!
2006-10-10 03:10:07 · answer #6 · answered by Fiz 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
be friendly, respectful but let your students know who is in control let them know what you expect from them and most of all let them know they can trust in you as a teacher as well as a authority figure sometimes teachers are all a student of any age has for encouragement good luck
2006-10-10 03:08:01 · answer #7 · answered by kelleyandjohn2000 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not to strict and not to friendly. Don't act to eager. Just be yourself. Hi my name is....Tell them some things about yourself then ask them some stuff about themselves.
2006-10-10 03:03:09 · answer #8 · answered by And For A Moment I Am Happy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you should be both. Be nice but be firm about the class rules and stick to your decisions about how to handle rule breaking.
Jennifer
2006-10-10 02:57:52 · answer #9 · answered by heartshaveears 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Let the kids ask any questions about you and be nice.When you start teaching start pretty easy and in a week start doing your hard work.
2006-10-10 03:04:56 · answer #10 · answered by sajey its me james 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋