Meeting the Class for the First Time

 

Meeting the Class for the First Time

For the First Time, I Met the Students in the Class

A significant amount of time is spent preparing to become a teacher. Although it's easy to get caught up in the excitement of graduating from college with a bachelor's degree in education, passing your teachers certification exam, finding the type of teaching position you want, and getting through the interview process, there is another level of difficulty that awaits you that you may not have considered. You understand, maybe with some panic, that you are a teacher when you walk into a classroom and see a sea of small faces staring up at you anxiously. You realize that you are a teacher and that these pupils are counting on you to execute your job effectively.

For every instructor, there is a top-of-mind priority for what will transpire during that initial contact with a group of pupils. For some instructors, it is critical to create authority and to communicate to the students that they are the ones in charge and that they will be called upon to perform to your standards. Another point to consider is that the primary priority in the first hour should be to just get organized. Thoughtfully planning how you will conduct that first encounter is a good idea since it will help you create a connection with these students that will result in a highly productive, but joyful and peaceful class time experience each day.

Imagine about what you think their eyes are thinking while you stare into them. What do you think they're thinking? It isn't really that much of a mystery, to be honest. It is clear that they are extremely inquisitive about their new teacher, and the questions they have for you are not ones that they will ask you out loud, including the following:

• Is this new instructor unkind or considerate?

• Will she require us to work even harder than our last teacher?

• Is the new instructor amusing, or is he/she too serious?

• Is she going to make us relocate our chairs?

• This new instructor seems to be a bore.

That final question is perhaps the one that weighs the most heavily on the minds of the majority of pupils. For a young mind, the only offense that should be punished by death is for you to be uninteresting or uninteresting. They are also curious as to what will be the first thing you say to them in order to get the connection off to a good start. They are highly interested in who you are as a person and if you will make studying enjoyable or, once again, that dreaded term, dull.

Taking the time to plan out precisely what you want to achieve in your first meeting with your new class is a fantastic idea, and you should do it as soon as possible. One recommendation that has some genuine value is to try to find a method to swiftly transition from strangers to friends, and to express to the students that you want to work with them as a team as soon as possible. The creation of an educational environment that is rich in learning potential will occur when you and your students work together as a team with the shared goal of learning what they need to learn in order to get good grades to take home to their parents while also doing so in an engaging manner will result.

One method to get the connection off to a fantastic start is to do something unexpected when you first meet with them and address their concerns. Tell a joke, introduce yourself with a hilarious drawing from your youth, or in any other way surprise your new students in a lighthearted and enjoyable manner. In this way, you express to them that you want to be a fun teacher and that they should come to class prepared since they never know what may happen in a classroom setting. As a result of developing that level of rapport, you will have formed a connection that will only continue to open up, become more trustworthy, and become more productive. Everything began because you refused to be that one thing that students despise about you. You didn't want to be monotonous.