Blogpost #4

I would say nothing is wrong with the student or the students family. The family is raising their child the way they believe is best. The child is obviously going to bring those traits into the classroom with him. He is going to believe whatever his family says and does. As a child the first people we ever have real social contact with is our families, also when we are young we love to copy people. It is our natural instinct to follow the when we do not understand something. When you are at the age of four or five you do not know anything really. You are going to follow what siblings do, what parents do. Some of those actions may not be good but it is the way people are and we will continue to follow. The job of the teacher should never to judge students but to look to help them or talk to them about it. If it is a bad action they are doing they need to explain to the student why it is bad. Parents probably do not know their son or daughter is copying them so they cannot discipline them. The teacher then has to explain why it is bad. On the other hand the teacher should compliment the student when he or she does something good. Let's say a student starts to cry and another comes over and comforts that students. The teacher can talk to the student who helped and ask them where they learned to care and comfort others. The student would say he or she has seen their dad comfort their mom when she was crying. It is a two way street. The teacher should tell the student when they are doing something wrong and explain why. Also they should compliment the student when they do something good and talk to them about why it is good and where they learned it from.