Teachers And Child Psychology

Teachers are the children with whom they share the most time after their parents. Even a child attending kindergarten and primary school sees his teacher more than his parents. While a father can see his child for a few hours in the evening, the teacher is with the children for at least six hours. The person who enters the child's life over such a long period of time has undoubtedly a great influence on shaping the personality-character and development of the children. 

The first expectation of a growing child from teachers is love and attention. 

Teachers are one of the people who will plant the seeds of love in the soul of the child whose basic need is love, compassion and compassion. Therefore, the first thing a teacher can give to children is love and compassion, even if it is not written in the curriculum. Meeting a child's demand for love and compassion is also important for healing the child's potential wounds in psychology. Lovelessness is a greater wound than ignorance. Some teachers may show more love to students who are successful, who are unwittingly involved in the lesson. However, students who seem irrelevant to the class in the classroom may need more love. Opening a channel of love for them is one of the best attitudes a teacher can do.

For a child, love is one of the sine qua non of this life and the other is trust. 

From birth, children want to trust the adults around them. Because this world is a very foreign place for them and the only place in which he can feel safe in the vast world is with adults. When the child cannot find the trust sought from adults, he falls into a big gap. The child wants to trust his teacher and give himself to him. It will not be difficult for the child to trust someone who respects him or her. However, the teacher's promise not to stop, to condemn the child, to criticize, to provide him with sufficient attention, to be unjust will break the child's trust over time. When the teacher creates the feeling that ta I am precious in the eyes of my teacher, he does not let me down, he is my supporter behind me, he is with me in difficulties, he does not give up loving me even if I know it wrong ”.

Even if we call everyone bulunan children Bir in a class, each of them is different. 

Every child is ic unique ile with his family structure, history, socio-economic status, abilities, emotions, learning style, learning speed and desires. It is undoubtedly difficult to teach such different children at the same time. Therefore, the profession of teaching is seen as sacred. Children are like different flowers that have opened in the same garden. Irrigating each flower separately without turning all the flowers into a flower is the job of skilled gardeners. One of the greatest things the teacher can do is to discover the different abilities each of the children have, and to make it noticeable to the child and then to his or her family. Every child has an ore. Academic achievement is only one dimension of success. The teacher is the one who discovered and raised the ore in the child.

The age of 6-12 is a period in which every child must experience success. 

If a child in this period does not experience success in any field, he may feel inferior and feel insignificant and insufficient in later years of his life. Some children are good in academia, some in sports, some in art, some in music, some in painting. Some children have good human relationships, others have high language or voice skills. Every child needs to make at least three to four sentences in the form of “I am good in this area için for healthy soul development. One of the greatest favors a teacher can do to children is to show them the areas in which they are good and to give them a sense of success in any field. In today's world where success is only reduced to course success, directing the child's attention to one area and giving him the message “You are good in this area, will be one of the greatest gifts a child will be offered.

Every human being, from an infant to an elderly, carries honor and glory. 

One of the greatest evils to human beings is to damage his dignity. When one's human dignity is destroyed and destroyed, that person loses his humanity. There is no difference between the honor of the child and that of the adult. Insulting an adult, ridiculing him, humiliating him in public, punishing him in front of everyone, and comparing him with another person is just as dishonorable as it is for children. Teachers sometimes have fun, sometimes to teach a lesson inadvertently damaging the dignity of children and may play with the dignity of the child. Not only as a child, but as a cherished person is one of the most beautiful features.

Children are influenced by the thoughts of adults and usually internalize them. 

If their teacher attaches labels to children such as bel lazy, sluggish, lethargic, clumsy, stupid, clumsy, clumsy, hyperactive, distracted, cowardly, timid çocuklar children really think they are. Over time, this label becomes part of them, an identity. After this stage, it is very difficult to remove the child from the effect of that label. A good teacher is not a labeler of children, but a person who removes negative labels attached to them.

Children are curious and curiosity is the basis of learning. 

From the moment of birth, the child can learn to walk, talk, the name of the objects and the world in a short time thanks to his curiosity. A child whose desire to explore is kept alive is always ready to learn. The most important thing that dulls the curiosity is not to allow him to wonder and to teach the child that they are not curious. The child learns that they do not worry, cools down without learning. Therefore, it is an important task for teachers to keep children's curiosity alive. While teaching, the children leave a treasure that they will carry for life, starting from these feelings. This treasure is that children enjoy their learning processes and experience the excitement of discovering.

Information learned during school years is forgotten over time, but the accumulated emotions are carried to the end of life. 

For this reason, the teacher should not only aim to transfer knowledge, but to the hearts of children rather than to their minds. It should be another task of the teacher to ensure that children leave the school process with positive memories and establish good human relationships.

The teacher guides not only children but also the whole society. 

Sometimes it is not enough to teach children in the classroom, but parents need guidance. It will be a good step for the development of society by informing parents about the approach to the child, the use of reward and punishment, and the exclusion of wrong parenting behaviors.

Yes, we expect a lot from our teachers. While a parent is having trouble taking care of their own children, we ask them to touch many children. We also know that this is difficult. We can only overcome this challenge together. As a community, we believe that when we take more care of our teachers and value them more, our teachers will do the best for our children, even under difficult conditions, and carry them safely to the future.

With respect and respect for all our teachers.