INTEGRITY OF CHARACTER + CREATIVE THINKING = SUSTAINED SUCCESS IN LIFE.

ADVANTAGE TEACHERS

ALL THE YEARS THAT I have spent teaching one interesting phenomenon was that after every Parents Teachers Association meeting most teachers came back to the staff-room, a little defeated and with the comment-'What all can we do?Parents also have to understand their role and responsibilities'. Agreed one hundred percent. Each must perform their role, parents can't take on the role of the teacher and teacher can't take on the mantle of parents.

But over the years I noticed a distinct advantage teachers have over parents in the field of imparting values. Whatever parents preach, they have to live by those words for them to become part of a child's personality, no amount of discourses and enforcements work without you as a parent living those values,under all circumstances but teachers can make an impact by just talking about certain values in the class or pointing them out during the course of a lesson.In this regard third to seventh grade teachers hold tremendous sway over their students,because children at this age install their teachers on a pedestal.

This advantage to teachers is for imparting certain values and confidence enhancing skills, for discipline I think it has to be imbibed by example only.

So do you agree that it is Advantage Teachers!