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Failure The Teacher Can Let: Certain school conditions create problems. In many schools, standards of achievement are one or two years higher than the learning ability of the majority of the children. This leads to failure the teacher can let. failure the teacher can let in schoolwork frequently leads to truancy, hostility, aggressive behavior, daydreaming, inattention, apathy, and other problems. If the child cannot achieve success in socially approved ways, he seeks a false kind of superiority in misbehavior. When maladjusted children were transferred from a rigid classroom to one in which the teacher adapted instruction to individual control.
After a few days the teacher noted that Eleanor was fairly comfortable in school and was happy to talk about the games she was playing. The teacher noted: 'Eleanor enthusiastically told me the names she had given to all the plastic play people/
After about a week Eleanor began to greet the teacher when they met in the morning and she usually had some news to report. The teacher felt that this was a good sign that Eleanor was settling in well.
Should a child love his teacher? Yes, if "love" is taken to mean a warm, constructive relation in which the child is truly valued and helped to develop his best potentialities. No, if it means a relationship that is intense and meets the emotional needs of the teacher at the expense of the child. A teacher's strong personal affection for one child may lead to favoritism, which children keenly resent. Or it may make the child oversensitive to the teacher's opinion. |
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