Professional Behavior for Students
Let's Talk About Professional Behavior for Students!
Students in high school can behave
like adults and should be expected to behave
like adults. High expectations bring high
results!
A teacher of high school subjects is teaching
physics, math, social studies, or language.
The teacher is not the students' pal, clergyman,
attorney, or political activist.
The teacher's relationship with a
student is a professional relationship and
to pretend that teachers can fulfill these
many different roles is misleading,
immature, and dishonest.
These are roles for the
students' friends, family, and for other
professionals.
In high school, the emphasis is on
teaching subjects, not children. We are
teaching young adults the subjects they need
to be proficient in.
The teacher's mandate,
the teacher's task, the teacher's assignment,
the teacher's professional duty is to teach
the relevant subject matter in a friendly
and professional manner.
The teacher should model adult,
professional behavior and should expect
adult, professional behavior from students.