Teaching Hope 96
This is definitely an extreme case when it comes to coming into the school in distress, with something on your mind. This got me thinking about how a teacher should handle themselves at school when something at home is bothersome. Do you try and act as normal as possible and go about you day as usual? Do you proceed as this teacher did and tell your class exactly what's going on with you? I think it definitely depends on the situation, what the problem is. If something is upsetting you though your students will notice for sure, I don't think there's any way of you hiding it from everyone. So I think you certainly have to address it in some way. In some cases if it's a smaller manner, perhaps you just tell them something is going on but it's going to be okay and you're fine. If it's something bigger, maybe you tell your students what's going on like this teacher in the story. Either way I think you must have a game plan going into the day, knowing that you may not be at your best that day. But I think at the same time it's good for students to see us vulnerable at times, it helps them to relate, helps them to remember that were just like them.
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