October 2. Bond With Your Students

It sounds like a no-brainer, but the more you think about it, the more the idea of bonding with you students, in a positive way, makes a ton of since and many of us fail to do it. We walk in on the first day of school and have this my way or the highway approach to things and end up turning off our students from days one. We forget about all the sorry bosses that we have had throughout our life that were like that, that we wouldn’t work for and then expect the students to come to school and do exactly what we wouldn’t. The idea of showing students respect, kindness and FAITH from the get-go sounds so simple, yet we forget to do it so often. We also forget that it is part of our job to set them up to succeed, not to fail them to make a point. We as teachers too often make stupid comments like “I’m not here to be your friend” or “You don’t have to like me” when if we really want them to succeed and for them to buy in to what we are trying to do for them, then yeah we do. The idea is that we need the education process to become a major part of their lives that they take home with them and that they become invested in because of the bond they share with their teacher.