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Turning a blind eye is a teacher's compulsory course

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By yan yangPublished 2 years ago 3 min read

An old teacher in class saw that a student did not take out his book, so he patted him twice with the pointer, and the student directly scolded the teacher. You can imagine how awkward it was... The teacher is said to have wept silently after class.

I don't want to talk about how "hateful" the students are and how sympathetic the teachers are. This discussion doesn't help and we don't learn anything. The following three points discuss some basic understandings and what I would do if it were me.

1. A student is a unique, living individual

This is correct nonsense, but because it is correct nonsense, very few people really care, really understand and practice the idea of this sentence deeply.

Student, a collective noun. When we talk about students, we should talk about a specific student; The student should not be hidden under the collective term "student."

Some students are "okay" with two whips (and by "okay," I mean they don't overreact to whips); Some students can't accept it.

How do you know if he'll take it? Depends on what you know about him. If this premise doesn't hold for you, don't take drastic action.

Sometimes, no reaction is the best reaction.

2. Class is bigger than life

Which students are most likely to catch the teacher's eye in class? Yes, the students who run away, talk, and play tricks. They intentionally or unintentionally brush their sense of existence and "go to war" with the teacher, so the teachers often "fall into the trap" and can not help but "play" with the students for several rounds, however, there is no winner in the end.

This is actually unfair to those students who listen carefully and take notes.

It is necessary to reiterate a basic fact: the main job of a class is to teach.

So, as long as the student's behavior does not affect others, but makes the teacher feel "eyesore", it may as well let him go. Don't forget, there are so many pairs of eyes waiting for you.

There is a famous class teacher. There is a "troublehead" in his class who always avoids confrontation with him in class.

When we are teachers, we must have students in our eyes and no students in our eyes. There are no students in the eyes, which means that you may ignore those deserted students in class and finish the class well; Having students in your eyes means not giving up on any of them. Since you don't work hard in class, make up after class.

3. What I do

Not necessarily right, for reference only:

1️⃣ Go up to him and give a lecture

2️⃣ Go up to him and point at his desk

3️⃣ Kua other students, said xx has turned to xx page, quick action

4️⃣ Make eye contact with him for three seconds

5️⃣ Since repeated teaching, then I will turn a blind eye

You see, neither way is going to create a teacher-student confrontation.

A few days ago, I had a class, a boy regardless of the occasion directly said to me, teacher you look at this. This caught the attention of the students around. With that, he handed me a piece of paper, which I naturally knew was a student's chat note.

What do you do in this situation?

I took his note and continued my lesson.

Turn a blind eye, pretend to be deaf and dumb, class is bigger than a day, talk alone. Yeah, that's how I keep a good mood and interact with my students.

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