Teaching

Teachers are not parents or friends.

Teachers can be mentors, they can be heroes, but they are teachers.

Parenting is for parents-- it is not a teacher's responsibility to raise kids.

And while I have been close with a few teachers, I would not say that those teachers' role is "friend." Like I said, the mentor role is important and appropriate. You can be "friendly" with your teachers, but it is not their job to be your friend and they should not strive for "friendship" in its' literal sense.

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They should not act like eithers pals or parents, but should possess many of the qualities that both of these people possess. A teacher should be able to listen to, joke around with, and laugh with students like a friend would. But they should also be able to guide, warn, and encourage students as though they were a parent. It's not a matter of being a friend or a parent, but possessing the qualities that each of these groups do.

Teachers. I'm not quite sure what you're trying to get at with your first question, but I don't think either answer is really appropriate.

Where teachers should draw the line as far as their involvement in their students lives depends at least in part on the age of the students. As a preschool teacher I spend as much time teaching social skills, buttoning pants, and comforting hurt or upset kids, as I do teaching academics. I also tickle and hug my kids, and tell them "I love you." A middle or high school teacher would probably spend most of their time teaching academic skills. While they might teach some social skills or comfort a student, it would almost certainly be inappropriate to tell a student "I love you" or touch them in any way more intimate then a handshake or pat on the back. Does that answer your question?

"Excellence is the result of caring more than others think is wise, risking more than others think is safe, dreaming more than others think is practical, and expecting more than others think is possible."

a good friend or trying to be a parent role, especially, if a student's house environment isn't going well. That student might want someone's shoulder to lean on (if, he or she doesn't have any "true" friends). But, this doesn't necessarily mean that a student and teacher can be that "close". I have seen many good relationships between students and teachers. What about thinking from a teacher's perspective? I am currently in an education course for educators, and we talked about how it is hard to answer these questions when someone were to ask whether teachers should be good friends, parenting role, and etc.

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I have met a lot of teachers who care about there students and eventually when your in class teachers learn each person, and friendships can definitely come out of student and teachers. It's not a bad thing if you ask me, unless the friendship starts to come between things in the professional since, like changing grades unfairly or something like that.

There are a lot of teachers out there that don't act like they even want to be there teaching. Like they are doing the students a favor just for being there. They only look at it as a paycheck and don't look at the personal aspect that automatically goes with the position of being a teacher. I have met some teachers who were not interested in hearing any personal information from students and who didn't care if there was a student that had special circumstances. So the whole teacher being a friend can go both ways. Teachers can be friends, but there are some teachers who don't even barely want to be teachers, let alone friends. I'm am writing this entry because another student saw this discussion and wanted to also saw some things. His opinions are above. He says that can think of about three teachers that actually wanted to pass on there knowledge to the students. Those 3 teachers were the only one that seemed like they were a teacher because they wanted to teach.

...a role model, a mentor. A teacher must also look at each individual child and act accordingly. As an elementary ed major, I do not think there is one right answer to your question. A teacher needs to build a relationship with a child, one in which trust is incorporated. And if a teacher needs to act as a friend, then a teacher should. However, just like in parenting, that "friendship," should not take precedent.

A teacher is there to teach and to guide, to show a child the world. There are also many philosophies on teaching and education, and I think that has a big part in the relationships built.

They should be like parents in the sense that they are role models, but friends in the sense that the students should feel comfortable around them.

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Personally, I believe that teachers should be both teachers and friends. They should be professional when necessary, and after school, you should be able to talk to them, and now have it be about school. There is a time for professionalism and for being a friend. Besides, when you connect with students in not just a teacher to student way, they actually seem to enjoy learning more.

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I would say neither. A teacher should be a guide that helps the student to learn, not a babysitter or accomplice.

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