Remember+your+role+as+a+teacher

Remembering your role as a teacher promotes a safe, caring, and positive environment for your students. This saying is from Dr. Hiam Ginott that reminds us of the need to create caring environments for our students.

I have come to a frightening conclusion that. I am the decisive element in the classroom. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher I possess tremendous power to make a child's life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated, and a child humanized or de-humanized.

Teaching Students with Learning Problems, 8th Edition, Cecil D. Mercer; Ann R. Mercer; Paige C. Pullen (2011)