The Mind frame of being a Primary School Teacher

Primary school is named as such because it is the first real school that children go to.
This means teachers have to teach children how to work in accordance with the routines and structures that make up a school. Teachers are required to coordinate and administer everyday routines to condition students to interact in the school and classroom environment.

Teachers must have patience, understanding and provide sympathetic links to the nature of working with children. This highlights the necessity for teacher to have a repetoire of skills to deal with the various behaviours and attitudes children create. All teachers, learn how to deal with kids all the time. Even the highly skilled and many years contact teacher still needs to learn how to interact effectively with students.

Getting back to the blogs statement, the mind frame of a teacher is to maintain being an individual. You can be creative and unique too. You can show that you too are a person and that you have feelings. This showing of the human condition is appreciated by students, as a barrier is lowered so students feel comfortable that they do not have a tyrant of a teacher, but an approachable and realistic teacher.

Your role is to be a role model and be the responsible manager who needs to control some 30 children to carry out routines, produce learning and follow through personal development, all while dealing with situations that may arise for the safety and comfort of all. It is all in the name of the job, and that is why you get paid to do it.

Enough said, teaching is unique and rewarding if you make it that way. Many people become teachers everyday. It is challenging, energetic and requires effective communication skills. But most of all, you have to enjoy working with children, to see them learn new things and make sure they are comfortable, safe and at peace to learn and develop in the environment that you create.