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The Teachers position to put learners in, as they
cannot defend themselves, and it also
The staff at makes all teachers view them in a
Maryvale is made negative light, focusing on their
up of 18 teachers, behavior or academic issues rather than
and is a their individual situations. In this
supportive and context, an ideal teacher would not
supported group participate in the character
of colleagues. The principal stands assassination of learners. The ideal
behind teachers in matters of discipline teacher would focus on the learner as
and has an open-door policy for his a person and use his/her knowledge of
staff. Every Tuesday morning the the learner’s issues to help, rather than
teachers have a morning meeting to judge.
where one member of staff has
prepared an inspirational and/or
educational article to share with What is ‘Ideal’?
everyone else, and then anyone is
welcome to reflect on it. The teachers After being a learner in high school, I
gossip a lot in the staffroom and had some notions of what type of
complain to each other about specific teacher I would like to be. These were
‘problematic’ learners, and I feel that based, usually, on what character traits
this impacts negatively on everyone’s in my teachers that I did not want to
view of these learners. This is an unfair emulate. Being an observer, often
‘unseen’ in the classroom as a student
