can a teacher can be a teacher ?or can a teacher might be a friend?

Answer 1

teachers can be your best pals lady go ahead but dont cross the line

Answer 2

If by friend, you mean buddy, then that's not the most beneficial relationship for a teacher and student to have. Someone needs to be the adult and be willing to assume responsibility for educating the students. A good and truly caring teacher will have to discipline his/her students, and those students who view their teacher as a buddy will feel betrayed when discipline is required.

Students need to feel that their teacher is on their side and has their best interests at heart, but that's not what most people would term "friend," especially when there's likely to be a significant age difference between the students and adult. It's important that teachers be viewed by their students as knowledgeable and competent, too, because the bottom line is education. I learned the most from the teachers whom I respected, not the "cool" ones who joked with us everyday and allowed us to goof off in class.

I've seen too many new teachers who cared more about being liked and popular with their students than actually teaching them lessons that would help them later in life. This is a selfish attitude. In 100% of the cases the students' educations were shortchanged, and the teacher had countless discipline problems throughout the remainder of the school year.

This is not to say that a teacher cannot joke around and be well-liked by his/her students; however, a professional distance must be maintained if the students are going to receive a quality education. It is the teacher's responsibility to ensure that the student/teacher relationship is one that enables the greatest educational potential for those who have been entrusted to him/her.

Answer 3

A good Teacher has to be one who is easily accessible.He should be friendly with students and also should have a commanding personality.
A Teacher should not behave like a Boy Friend . ......no student should try anything like this with a Teacher.After all , he is a human and may cross the line if you become true intimate with a young Teacher.
I am also a Teacher.I understand student-teacher relationship very well.I have noticed some female students try their best to build an intimate relationship with some teachers who land up into a sexual relationship with some female sudents.......hardly materilising a real relatioship as such.The female students do so to secure better grades than others, which hardly happens in reality.

Answer 4

A teacher should be a teacher when he or she should be.And a friend when there are advices to be made.
When a student is found making a mistake, as a teacher he/she should point it out and as a friend act in order to explain what mistake the student is making and then try to advice him/her not to commit the same mistake in the future.
A friend also when a student is found wanting in academic side.A teacher should stand by the student and help in their studies and help them learn better and teach them in a way they would learn better, make them understand.
But inside class, a teacher is always more of a TEACHER than a friend..............

Answer 5

Contrary to most of the previous answers, I believe that a teacher should NOT also be a friend. Just like a parent should not be a child's friend--it simply isn't the proper role. This is not at all to say that you should not be friend-LY, and kind, and so forth. But you are not called to be a friend, per se.

Consider how students interact with their friends: they joke around with them (often inappropriately), they have frequent physical contact (hugs, pushing & shoving, etc), but most of all their primary interaction revolves around having fun together. While I believe a classroom environment should be fun, it is not a teacher's role (i.e. not what they're hired to do) to make sure they have fun with their students. The teacher's role is to make sure their students learn. Period. This is certainly best accomplished within the context of a classroom where the teacher is friend-LY toward his or her students, but not in a classroom where the teacher is the students' friend. I have seen examples of both, and in classrooms where there are clearly established boundaries and no role-confusion, learning is much more likely to happen.

Teaching as a career suffers from the wide-spread perception that teachers are not "professionals." In the professional world, "professionals" are certainly friendly toward their clients, at least the successful professionals are, but they are rarely friends with them. Likewise, if we desire professional status as educators, we need to be clear on our role, and communicate that to our students, parents, and administrators by remaining professional ourselves. This does not mean cold and heartless, but it does mean not being "best buddies" with our students.

Answer 6

You can be both a teacher and a friend to your students but you should draw the line. You are a teacher inside the school and a friend outside of it.

Answer 7

Teacher have to be a good friend with everyone but sometime teacher have to be stricted,so at that time he/she have to be teacher..

Answer 8

teaching is a very noble profession.
teacher is he ,who makes a man a man
a teacher cannot be a friend.
but now-a-days teachers try to be-friend their students to show that they are mod and changing with the changing time

Answer 9

BOTH, a teacher can be a teacher and friend also, depending on the nature of the teacher, depending on if he or she is sincere teacher

Answer 10

Teachers can be friends, no doubt. But dont cross the line! You can connect with your students better by being a friend, but dont let them take advantage of that.

Answer 11

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