"Teachers touch eternity for they never know where their effect ends." I strongly believe in this saying for it summarizes how teachers shape the future. When children first come to school, they're a soft dough that we can mold and create the personalities we wish to see in the future. Whatever we start at school will go on with those children till the end of their lives, and probably to the lives of their children.
Usually we have expectation for each and every student in our class, so we need to be careful with those expectations since our students will be what we have expected them to be. Why is that? Simple because we start to deal with them under that label thus directing them to meet that expectation. This final result is the effect we left on those children's lives forever. So, dear teachers, be careful to make that effect a bright one! 
True. How many students'lives were altered positively or negatively just becasue of teachers' expectations? Keeping that in mind will make us aware of every comment and every gesture and every implication we give students.
ReplyDeletevery true, "what u expect is what u get"
ReplyDeleteHow ideal!!!
ReplyDeleteI wonder to what extent that is really practiced in owr schools!?
I hope that all teachers ascend to the ultimate educational goal............
Actually at the very first moment that a teacher comes to school, previously present teachers start telling “This boy is trouble maker”, “look at that girl, she is a low achiever” and this labels student even before the teacher actually meets him or her making the teacher have varying and unfair expectation toward students. Hope that all teachers get the importance of expectations toward students achievement.
ReplyDeleteYou right Miss Diana. The morals and behaviors that students learn from their teachers are still in their minds and last for ever. Here are two quotes to assure your point of view and mine also.
DeleteWhat the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches. ~Karl Menninger
“[Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.” Jim Henson