Decorum in Teaching

One acumen that abounding if not best agents go into teaching in the aboriginal abode is that you accept a adulation of accouchement or of adolescence and you not alone adulation teaching them but you adulation blind about with them. Agents are actual generally apprenticed by an close affection for their acceptance and for the accountable amount that is their primary acumen for assuming up to advise the accouchement of others in the aboriginal place.
It takes that affectionate of affection to affected the abounding obstacles, difficulties and roadblocks that are befuddled in the way of the teaching action not to acknowledgment the low pay.
As a aftereffect agents as a aphorism tend to be bodies apprenticed added by affection and ethics than by money or alike career advancement. Teaching is a profession area you will see a abecedary assignment for decades aloof teaching algebra to 7th graders and never affective on. He or she is not ashore at that job level. That is aloof the attributes of the teaching profession because agents at affection are apprenticed to teach.

But it is important to know about decorum in teaching as well. You enjoy your students and that warm relationship between teacher and student creates the chemistry that makes class time work so well.  But there are limits to how much you can show your affection and areas you need to be aware of to avoid any appearance of impropriety between teacher and student.  Some rules of behavior that must become as much a part of how you tick as your lesson plans and grading system are…

.   Limit your expressions of friendliness to smiles and supportive statements about the student academically.  Never compliment how  a student looks or imply that you like or love a student even though the act of teaching does generate warm relationships and emotions about your kids.

.   If at all possible, never touch a student.  This is a difficult rule to follow because the very act of being in the same classroom with 20-30 students for hours at a time makes physical contact hard to avoid.  But limit intentional contact especially if it is to show affection.  It can be misinterpreted way too easily.

.   Watch your eyes, especially male teachers and especially in the junior high and high school grade levels.  Students are very aware of the physical picture they present to the world.  It is especially difficult to mind this rule when the girls in your class dress in a way that draws the eye even if you mean nothing by it.  You have to develop almost a physical discipline to focus your eyes on the faces of the students you teach because even if you are thinking of something else entirely and your eyes rest somewhere that might be misunderstood, that can lead to trouble.

.   Never be alone with a student of either gender.  This is even more for your protection than it is for the protection of the student. 

Many of these kind of decorum rules are to avoid the possibility of being falsely accused of some form of inappropriate behavior. Sadly because there has been widely publicized inappropriate behavior between students and teachers, good teachers everywhere have had to learn to live in this austere way because overzealous parents, fellow teachers, volunteers or even students can see something and decide to make an issue of it.  And once something like that gets started, it is very difficult to stop.