Students should feel safe: Caring for emotions in the classroom
Unsafe classrooms are where the teacher: uses physical punishment uses verbal abuse and degrade students bullies students calls names to students calls students useless insults students’ in-front of their peers Some teachers think that the above strategies can teach the students a good lesson and they can learn better. Some teachers believe that such strategies are effective to maintain classroom discipline. They want to control students by force. They want to show that the students know less and so the teacher has the authority to feed them what they do not know. However research has strongly rejected such claims, proving that any kind of punishment affects the child’s personality. The child loses confidence on him/herself. This has life-time implication for the child. There are other and more effective ways of soft discipline strategies through a positive teacher-student relationship that I have talked abou