week 10 dq

You are in a class to teach, to help, possibly to mentor. But not be involved in most other ways. The student teacher dynamic is too easy to break. Once broken close to impossible to rebuild.

any course which begins with (in the most ben stein boring monotone voice imaginable; Bueller, Bueller, Bueller) “in what year did the battle of x occur”. I love history and that bores, me and I have several direct relatives who took part in the battle.

Every subject needs to come with an element of interest/excitement. Every single one.

That deals with the how to have the students be interested.

How to deal with those students who are just flat out not ready for the class, recommend the correct help. Be that tutors, extra lab time, study group, extra class time, or counseling. If they begin to take on the symptoms of any given type of malady, help them understand the concept of transference. Direct them towards the proper assistance. Even if the teacher has a license to practice, does not mean for a second the person before you is a patient of yours. In fact treating people unless it si a dire emergency is against the law. Someone in real mental health strain, have proper authorities work with the person. The teacher student and academic situation just like at the start of the class with the inappropriate interaction between teacher and student, a mental health situation is literally just as bad. The teacher has absolutely no right at all “hippa” to be involved at all with a students mental health. returning to class after an event is so against every moral and ethical rule I can think of. Having personally experienced several teachers having entirely inappropriate interactions with me in both parochial school and college, the two are equal in totally inappropriate. Intimacy and mental health issues. Refer the person instantly/immediately to a professional in the situation and step away as ignorant as possible; hippa.

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