Teachers Need to Go through This post At least once!
AS A TEACHER, WHAT ARE THE THINGS WE MUSTNOT DO? (Resource: Ms. Caroline and Mrs. Karma Gayphel, Lecture from SCE, Samtse.) It’s all what I gained from the short Professional development program I attended recently. It was based on “POSITIVE DISCIPLINE IN THE CLASSROOM”. We should not opt for punishment if our students tend to do things which we don’t want them to do because punishment is not only physical as we see, it is also an emotional punishment as punishing a particular student will affect that child emotionally which we haven’t thought till date. Some of the emotional punishments can be shouting at the child, yelling, ignoring, insulting, name calling, putting down(you don’t know anything, useless…)…and many more which will lower the self- esteem of the child. Doing such thing in class will definitely hamper the child emotionally leading in ineffective teaching learning. If we are using punishment as the means of improving our students, we are walking on the thorny pat
