Love or Fear Weekend-Engagement Week 142
As a teacher, I always impose strict discipline in the classroom. I am a firm believer that students will not learn what is expected of them to learn if the place is chaotic and unorganized. I do not smile when I come inside the classroom. I do not talk unless everyone has settled down on their seats and I do not make friendly gestures when I am just beginning my class.
I want to set the mood that I am in control and that I can manage their different behaviours. I want them to realize my role as a teacher, and of themselves as students because creating and defining our roles will create harmony and peace, and so there will be effective teaching and learning process.
According to Niccolò Machiavelli in his writing of the Prince, "It is better to be feared than to be loved, if one cannot be both." Perhaps my leadership and teaching style is anchored to this idea. I would rather be feared than loved so that my job as a teacher will surely be fulfilled.
Certainly, teachers should be kind and empathetic to the students, and learning out of fear is not healthy. But, if I do not discipline my students and does not impose strict classroom management, the opportunity for learning to happen will be wasted.
I do not see myself smiling to students who do not perform their learning activities because of indolence, I will not be happy facilitating learning if some students are going in and out of the classroom, shouting, laughing hard, using cellphones, and other misbehaviours. I have to deal with it, or I have to prevent that from happening.
And it is so sad to note that nowadays the "Child Protection Policy" is exaggeratedly interpreted, thus abused. Teachers have to be extra careful on disciplining the students. But, it is more dissappointing, that students are acting stupidly in the school because their parents fail to teach values at home.
Sometimes LOVE is not ENOUGH
This is my entry for the Weekend-Engagement Initiative Week 142 of 
