Assertive Teachers
by How assertive teachers’ methods benefit students in a classroom.
“I’ve come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It’s my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess a tremendous power to make a child’s life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a child humanized or de-humanized.” (Dr. Haim Ginott)
A classroom is a place where a number of students, all of a different nature get together. As humans we all possess different nature, different temperament. That is one reason why it is said that all humans are unique. This is something that we, as teachers, tend to forget. Teacher is the person who makes the school life of the student a success or a pain to them. As the saying of Dr. Haim Ginott says, in all situations which may arise in a classroom, it is the teacher’s response which will settle it or make it into something worse off than anything else.
A classroom is not a place where the students feel that their teacher is another Hitler, nor is it a place where the students jump over the teacher’s head. It is a place where well-disciplined students all work together with the teacher to get an education. A teacher is someone on whom the students can rely to settle all their troubles which may arise while in the school. Students should be able to have faith in their teachers. However irresponsible a student might be, he or she would know that they come to school for a certain reason.
In the olden days students who enter a class were scared to breathe properly inside the classroom lest they make a noise and get canned for it. Exercising this harsh type of disciplining tactics has a negative effect on the students. They sure get scared and stay quiet but its only being scared which keeps them quiet. Along with that their interest and motivation in studying will be blown away like a thin piece of cloth on a windy day. Their dislike towards the teacher will rise and their trust and faith in elders and people of authority will wane.
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