Awwww the kids can be so cute sometimes!

[Iain.Faulkner]

The kids at my last school used to call me "Neo" due to the long black leather jacket I used to wear every day around school, I found it hilarious, don't the kids know that Neo doesn't wear a long black leather jacket in the Matrix? :-)

 

For a while I was Peter Kay as well, but that soon fizzled out.

[KWestos]

My sister was already at the secondary school when I started (she's a teacher). The children put our names together (my sister not being married) and asked if we were related. I said yes, she was my wife - thinking this would be rather amusing. Not thinking that my sister may take offence to this, she quickly put the pupils right when she taught them.

Now, some of the little darlings just call me 'Mr Incest' or or hum the theme the Incy Wincy Spider (I guess it has something to do with Incest)!!! Oh How I regret it now!!!!!!!

[john]

Do they also call teachers by their first names? If not, I don't think it acceptable that they call you John. Staff should be treated and addressed the same, whether teachers, IT support, lab techs or admin; otherwise you could create/reinforce an "us and them" between staff, or have the students viewing you as less important or less authoritative.

 

Yup they do, some staff don't like it and don't let them but some do, its a small rural school I'm at so you are actually more likely to come across them in the community, at local events, choirs, church, supermarket etc so tbh a lot of them know your name already. Our kids know I am godlike and higher and mightier than teachers remember I control The Internet hehe (thats a joke that last bit btw before anyone jumps on me for that!)

Edited May 19, 2010 by john

[AntiThesis]

I think it helps that I teach as well as do the IT so there's no two ways about me being a member of staff. I give the Grade 7s (13 year olds) a little more leeway but they all still call me Sir or Mr

 

It helps to assert the authority once in a while by kicking a few kids out.

[sted]

Do they also call teachers by their first names? If not, I don't think it acceptable that they call you John. Staff should be treated and addressed the same, whether teachers, IT support, lab techs or admin; otherwise you could create/reinforce an "us and them" between staff, or have the students viewing you as less important or less authoritative.

i prefer to go by my first name with the kids (i work in primarys for what its worth) as im not a member of staff as such and so my theory is by being firstname rather than mr surname im less likely to be asked questions i cant give them answers to like can i go to the toilet/outside/use a computer etc

[laserblazer]

For my first couple of years here the kids called me Sven because they reckoned I looked like Sven-Goran Eriksson. Now, they wouldn't have a clue who he is. In fact, not one kid in a Y7 class could tell me the name of Chelsea's home ground, which made me think again about one of the scenes in a "1066" video we are making!

[Duane_Dibbley]

I prefer to be called by my first name - especially because it makes me less authoritative. I've never worked with kids before, and have had no training in it so the only way I know how to act around them is in an informal way. I have tried telling some yr 6 kids off before, and they basically just laughed at me lol. I really dont mind though cos they all seem to like me, and I think in some cases it means that they actually listen to what I say as they know i'm not a "boring teacher trying to tell them what to do" type. I suppose it would probably be different in high school though.

[CHR1S]

I prefer to be called by my first name - especially because it makes me less authoritative. I've never worked with kids before, and have had no training in it so the only way I know how to act around them is in an informal way. I have tried telling some yr 6 kids off before, and they basically just laughed at me lol. I really dont mind though cos they all seem to like me, and I think in some cases it means that they actually listen to what I say as they know i'm not a "boring teacher trying to tell them what to do" type. I suppose it would probably be different in high school though.

 

I talk to them like I would an adult, but maybe dumb down a few words for the younger ones and explaine why the thing they are doing is wrong/right or whatever. If you respect them they (usually) respect you.

[creese]

I talk to them like I would an adult, but maybe dumb down a few words for the younger ones and explaine why the thing they are doing is wrong/right or whatever. If you respect them they (usually) respect you.

 

I always make a point of talking to kids as adults. I don't work in schools now except 2 or 3 weeks now and then in Africa. They try it on now and then, I let it go until they look like they will overstep the line, then I get a bit firm.

[elsiegee40]

I always make a point of talking to kids as adults. .

 

Me too... and I end up talking to the Adults as Kids pretty regularly too

 

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