Human responds differently to the same situations. This is due to the variation in the interpretation trait exhibited by each individual. Although human minds are reflections of the conditions and environment in which they are grown and raised. Do teachers consider the individual circumstances of each student while responding to their acts and performance in school? This is one of the most neglected sides of child development in our society.
After parents, teachers are the ones with whom a student spends most of his time, and if we say a teacher knows the student better than parents, it would not be wrong. We see that many teachers used to scold students for their bad performance and simultaneously appreciate some others for their better performance. Such acts are considered a normal part of school life, and no one pays heed to this.
The human mind is not able to interpret the same things in the same way all the time. The situations are interpreted according to the states where they take place. This is a normal practice for all the body organs of humans. Like, if we wear a jacket in winter, it is normal, but wearing such a jacket during the extreme heat of summer will lead to consequences. Similar is the case for human mind, and early school days are the crucial part of personality development.
During this period, it is commonly observed that three different students perform differently in the same exam. Someone has been very outstanding, someone performed average, and the other one just failed badly. Teachers used to appreciate the outstanding one and scold the other two for being average and poor. There is no issue with it, but teachers usually portray the one who performed outstandingly as the one with no errors and others as a picture of mistakes.
Now, there is a possibility that the teacher is portraying a student as null by saying, “You are useless, you can’t do anything”, just needs a sentence of appreciation to trigger the inner motivation. The teacher can raise the levels of performance of each student by being on their stage. The one being on average stage can be motivated to reach the achiever’s stage and the one who failed can be motivated to reach the average stage.
Such ways of teaching are common among professional teachers, but sadly to say the society where we live, teachers just choose teaching because they were not able to pursue a job in their related field. The school just hired them because they are budget-friendly. Such teachers usually leave the job as they find a job offer in their related field, leaving scars of scolding on students.
Some students consider appreciation as perfection. Some consider scolding a motivation, and some consider a teacher’s bad remarks as degradation. So, educational institutions must focus on individualism when it comes to responding to students rather than following a traditional way of collective response.
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