Seen recently by Della on the wall of a classroom where she was delivering an ILM session for our Bolton West cluster... we loved it so thought we'd share it!


My Impact as a Teacher
 
I have come to a frightening conclusion.
I am the decisive element in the classroom.
It is my personal approach that creates the climate.
It is my daily mood that makes the weather.
As a teacher I possess tremendous power to make a child's life miserable or joyous.
I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration.
I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal.
In all situations it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated, and a child humanized or dehumanized.
 
by Haim Ginott