Working with Students
- Relax and be yourself.
- Be friendly toward all students.
- Be pleasant and interested in the students’ activities.
- Encourage the student to try and do the activity to the best of his or her ability.
- Praise individual students for a job well done.
- Encourage positive behavior by making notes of students who are doing things the right way.
- Remember that a student often responds better to suggestions, rather than commands.
- Proceed at the student’s own rate of speed.
- Don’t do for a student what he or she can do for him or herself.
- Call the student by name at each opportunity.
- Approach a subject in a very specific way. In planning with the student, keep your expectations few, short, and clear.
- Be flexible! Don’t be afraid to admit your mistakes, nobody is perfect. Students are delighted with this honesty. It gives them a chance to “teach you” and an opportunity for the two of you to learn together which is important both academically and personally.
