Although it is the most decisive factor for a child’s growth and development, no high school homeschool curriculum ever focuses on the aspect of how students should interact with their teachers. Irrespective of the avoidance of the high school homeschool curriculum for this highly important issue, it is an undeniable fact that the personality of students depend largely on their teachers.
Teachers guide students
Right from the very beginning of the school days, students take teachers as their philosophers and guides, but this relation only makes the full circle when they start to take them also as their friends. Nowadays, it is being observed that due to the tremendous pressure of the high school homeschool curriculum, teachers get too little time for building rapport with the students. Teachers should do this while teaching in the classrooms. This entails responding to all the queries of the students without getting bored or annoyed even once.
Students look up to teachers
From the point of students, learn to respect your teachers as you respect your parents. Your teachers are not only your guides to help you manage the pressure of your high school homeschool curriculum, they are also your character builders and also guides for your life’s path.
The burden of high school homeschool curriculum though gets heavier in colleges and universities, yet the student-teacher relationship is somewhat easier and more intimate there. Unlike in schools, where teachers mostly treat students as their own children, in colleges, students are more colleagues than children. Consequently, it gets easier for the students to interact with their teachers without fear and hesitation
Teacher-Student relationship works both ways
Whether school or college, personality issues are increasingly spoiling the easy and dependable student-teacher relationships. This is the responsibility of both the teachers and the students to give time to improvise their mutual relationship which in turn will also help to lighten the burden of the high school homeschool curriculum.
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Author: Dr. Patricia Fioriello (111 Articles)
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“Although it is the most decisive factor for a child’s growth and development, no high school homeschool curriculum ever focuses on the aspect of how students should interact with their teachers.”
Do you have any facts or statistics to back this up? It’s a very absolutist statement (“most,” “no, “ever”).
Hello Jennifer,
I would like to thank you for taking the time to leave a comment on High School Mediator about homeschooling. I visited your site and discovered you are homeschooling your boys and that you have a wealth of information regarding homeschooling.
My past experience has been in the public education system. I was a teacher, principal and central office administrator for 25 years and not once did we address or talk about homeschool students as part of our community and responsibility. I worked at the high school level and there was no training at all about homeschooling and I had no contact with the homeschool community. This was my experience. I think it is unfortunate there is such distance between homeschooling and the public school because I believe we can both learn from each other and support each other. For some reason, the public school system appears to be threatened by homeschooling (that is my opinion).
I feel with the rapid advances in technology more and more children will start to be homeschooled and I also feel that the education system is not ready for the increase in homeschoolers. Educators should not and cannot divorce themselves from any students regardless of where they are schooled.
Thank you for your thoughts.
Dr. Patricia Fioriello
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