A Good Preschool Teacher's Role

I believe that early childhood educators play an important role in children’s life. A good teacher is more likely to shape children’s behaviors, attitudes and cognitive development. My dream is to be a successful preschool teacher. However, what the good teacher is.

IN MY OPINION:

Teachers should treat children like children. I am extremely serious on this point. Nowadays, we often unconsciously lapse into the different thinking that regards them as adults. If you do not believe that your thoughts sometimes like that way, you could consider about the following questions. Do you expect young children to be able to know what we are thinking? Do you look forward that their behaviors could be polite as we do? If your answer is yes, you will need to pay more attention on it because children’s cognitive skills are different from us, we cannot impose our thoughts on children.

Teachers should respect children and follow their pace of learning. Children have their own learning pace. Teacher cannot follow our own learning pace to treat them. We should know that children are not able to learn lots of skills all at once. They need step by step process to learn new skills. For example, tying shoes, button clothes, and cutting fruits are very easy for us, but children need more time to master these skills through their practicing. We need to wait and give them time to learn and to master. Helping kids to complete these seemed like simply work for us was not good for their development motor skills.

How to Deal with Children's Misbehavior?

When I was a little girl, my parents hope me to be superior to other children. They hoped to shape my behavior and personal quality as similar as their imaging. They set a serious of rules for me like be respect, be polite, be kind, and be clean. One day, my mother’s good friend invited us to her home. I was excited when she gave me a box of candies. I reached into the box and took a handful of candies in my hand. Suddenly, my father was angry with me and seriously told me just took one candy from the box. I refused and then my father considered I lose his face because my impolite behavior. He spanked me in the presence of aunt. My parents believed that punishment can correct my misbehavior.

Punishment hurt children’s heart, so every parent need to pay attention on their parenting way, especially managing children’s unfriendly or destructive behavior. How to deal with children’s misbehavior? There are many tips in Dealing with Children's Misbehavior.

- Remind your child of your love often. Love begets love.

- Give some space to your child but give the limits for the child' rude and destructive behavior.

- Know if the behavior was done on purpose and teach the child the harm of the action done unintentionally. Getting angry for something done unintentionally can make a child rebellious.

- Control your temper when dealing with a misbehaving child. If you get angry for an act done by your child out of resentment, you will just be completing a cycle of anger.

- Let your child recover from misbehavior. Time out in the bedroom will give your child time to think of the wrong actions done.

- Be firm with the punishments you give your child.

- Build a routine for your child that can make the child behave in a stable and secured manner.

- Give some breaks in the routine of the child, allow fun and enjoyment.

- Set the limits of the child firmly. Ask your child to agree on some consequences when the limit is   crossed.

Useful website: Correct Children's Behavior