Language

Teachers hold a lot of influence on their students. Many of these influences are for the betterment of the student, but there are some things that a teacher can do that will make a student question himself. As a teacher, it is your job to not only teach material, but teach the child as a whole. If you question any part of a child, that child may become self-conscious. One of the biggest things, and the topic that will be discussed in this blog, is the importance of the language that a student speaks at home, and has to speak in the classroom.


The language that a person grows up speaking is often called the mother tongue, and is the language that the child associates with love the strongest. It is important to embrace this language in order for the child to be confident in himself. Also, if the teacher questions the language spoken at home of a child there are two natural responses for the child. The first is to question the home life of the family and try to change to try to fit into the customs of society. The other is that the student may disregard everything that the teacher says at that point because the teacher questioned the love that they grew up with. Neither of these things are good scenarios for anyone to deal with. It is important as a teacher to embrace a students unique qualities and show that they are in the right, no matter what they grew up with.