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Case: Talking like a white girl I work at an inner-city school and I am the only white person in the classroom. Whenever I have a behavior issue with a student, I follow our school guidelines. When discussing it with my mentor teacher and team leader, they always respond that I need to quit talking to my students like a white girl. They inform me that my students come from the ghetto and sometimes it is necessary to be loud and "ghetto" to get respect from students. I don't agree with this. Any suggestions of how to get respect from my students and have them follow the rules of the classroom? Solution: (Rates are posted for this solution!) Your team leader and mentor are only showing you the way that they see it working. You can try different things as a teacher, thats how you learn and become better. I volunteer in a situation almost the exact same as yours and I have seen how my teacher and mentors work with the class and I have made my own way of doing things with my students. I love them dearly, but because I am soft spoken and very kind, they think that they can walk over me. Lately I have made it clear in a nice caring way that this is not okay. I sat them down and had a one on one. I told them them that even though I am only here a few days a week, does not mean I don't deserve the respect that my teachers get. I told them gently that I am not playing with them anymore and if they can't respect me, then they will have to be punished. Ever since then, my kids have been nothing but good when I am around. Sometimes students in this situation need to understand that you love them, but they cannot do bad things, because it is simply not okay. |
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