Chapter 9 emphasizes the importance of a teacher keeping their cool when things do go wrong. Teaching, as I have been experiencing with in field experience, is an emotionally taxing job. Teachers need to keep their emotional balance in check, and when things do go wrong, they need to be able to cope with the situation, and learn how to better the situation and themselves from it.
Through this chapter, students suggestions came as a no brainer to me personally. However, they stated the following advice: don’t be afraid to apologize, reexamine teaching approaches, don’t take a bad day too hard, don’t judge success on student opinion, don’t be a superhero, and don’t give up on them. Teachers who give up on their students should reconsider a new career path. Even if I have a bad class, students do not deserve to be given up on, and in my opinion that is the worst thing a teacher can do to their students.
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