Our own view of ourselves has an influence on how we treat others. If we have a tipsy view of ourselves, we will also have a twisted view of others especially our students. As teachers, it is important that we have the right perspective so as not to be distracted. We might know it, our behaviour has an influence to our students. How we talked and responded them, how we express ourselves to them, and how we treat our students can build or destroy a child.
People in general have a low self-image , self-esteem, self-worth, and self-love.
If generally speaking we have a low self-image,how much more oir students. As teachers, we need to fulfill our duties and responsibilities to guide them to develop their self-image, build their self-confidence, learn to have self-worth disregard of having flaws in life, and show them how to love themselves.
People can feel better and perform better in life if they improve their self-image.
Having self-confidence will help students to perform better not just in academic but also in other activities given to them. They will feel better if we teachers let them feel that it’s okay to fail as long as they tried doing it and learned something from it.
People tend to cover-up their poor self-image with different methods such as shyness or being show-off to prove that they are okay.
Most common problem in class is having a student who has poor self-image which is inevitable. They used defense mechanism in order for them to look okay even if they are not. As a second parent, we need to know them better as well as their stregnths and weaknesses to help them out of their own shell. Guiding them to improve having self-worth and believe in what they have.
The cure to self-image problem is to build a good self-image into the lives of people and tell them that a self-image is not based upon a comparison of theirselves to others but that they have Christ and gifts with which God has given them to live only for Him. And let us all encourage teens that having poor self-image, poor self-worth, and insecurity are the driving force to succeed and do better for their future. All they need is our guidance to take risk and step out from their own cave.
