Recently there have been some problems in my PDS with teacher anger control and classroom management methods. In any school, there are the mean teachers that students dread. Almost everyone has had that summer when they open their report card to find who their next teacher will be, and are shaken when they read the name of a teacher that everyone knows is "mean".
Just this past summer I was having Sunday dinner at my grandparents with my younger cousins. LaLee, the youngest was teasing her older brother, Cody, about his teacher. They had just received their report cards that told them who their teachers for next year would be. Apparently, Cody got the "mean teacher". He seemed pretty upset about it.
In my experience as a student and observing, I often hear teachers yelling or have had them yell at me. I understand that people get stressed out or students can continuously not listen, but I feel that raising your voice at students is never the way. I plan to never be "the mean teacher" and always be able to keep my cool with my students. In my pds, my teacher always speaks in a pleasant tone. Almost every time she asks a student to behave a certain way or not do something, she gives them a reason. She really stays calm while others may not. I plan on asking her next week at my PDS some of the ways that she stays so calm and keeps her voice at a consistently happy tone. It is important to not make students feel frightened or nervous and raising your voice at them will certainly not do so.
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