how to be a teacher

if your aim is to connect with your students and make them respect you, then let me tell you about the teacher I respected the most and learned the most from when I was at school. he was both smart and down to earth, he never made us board and was always up for a joke, I remember one time we had a question about how the hight of parents can effect the hight of the child, well after exsplaining the stuff a friend of mine said "but I'm taller then both my parent's". well quickly and with a calm smile he said "then, how tall is your milk man", every one laugthed including the boy who asked the question, this is because the teacher known that respecting the boys comments and knowing that he will find it funny (because the boy was a bit of a crazy loud mouth) kept the boy from being angry and stoped him from asking any more stupid questions and aloud him to pay attention more. the boy learned in that one lession more then he ever learned before and continued paying attention more in the following calsses, sounds like ball but it is true and the teacher latter became a uni professor and the last I heard of the boy is that he was doing well and still uses stuff he learned from that teacher. trying this approch can be risky and do not attempt to make rude jokes until you have learned about your different students and how they may react to jokes of this nature.

One of the noblest of all professions in the world is teaching. You just do the job sincerely, get involved in the topics and the students. Rest will be history. You will be pied piper of your students.