The focus of this chapter is on what to do when things don’t go well or when a teacher messes up. One of the things that was touched on concerned apologizing when you screw up. The example that was given was of a teacher that made a remark that was taken as offensive by the students, and when he apologized the students forgave him (pg170).
The concept of apologizing after making a mistake is critical for a teacher to grasp. Students need to see this modeled to them, and they also see that their teachers are human. It is important for a teacher to be humble before his or her students, while still maintaining their role as authority figure in the classroom. I have been in classrooms when a teacher apologized for something that was said in class. Most of the time I wasn’t even aware that what they said could have been taken wrong, but it always impressed me when the teacher was willing to admit his or her mistakes. I hope that when I am a teacher I can have the same humility and be willing to own up to my faults.
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