Teacher: Important of Mental Health
By: Janet Fine
All teachers must be emotionally well-balanced. Bad temper and impatience are quickly sensed by students and can destroy the delicate child-teacher relationship. Of course, there are worries and anxieties which affect all of us, and teachers have their share of them. Yet, an emotionally healthy teacher will take the daily frustrations for what they are. A good teacher will not magnify their importance.
It certainly is unfair for teachers to unburden themselves in the classroom. The fear and terror created by the moody, prejudiced, over-strict, or otherwise emotionally unstable teacher endangers the psychological health of the pupils, just as a teacher suffering from tuberculosis endangers their physical health. School principals and superintendents are working hard to devise procedures for screening out unstable personalities from among teacher candidates.
By: Janet Fine
All teachers must be emotionally well-balanced. Bad temper and impatience are quickly sensed by students and can destroy the delicate child-teacher relationship. Of course, there are worries and anxieties which affect all of us, and teachers have their share of them. Yet, an emotionally healthy teacher will take the daily frustrations for what they are. A good teacher will not magnify their importance.
It certainly is unfair for teachers to unburden themselves in the classroom. The fear and terror created by the moody, prejudiced, over-strict, or otherwise emotionally unstable teacher endangers the psychological health of the pupils, just as a teacher suffering from tuberculosis endangers their physical health. School principals and superintendents are working hard to devise procedures for screening out unstable personalities from among teacher candidates.
