Teacher Anger: When Does It Violate Expected Norms of Teacher Behavior?
Welcome to Inside the School! While you’re here, be sure to download a free report. Editor’s note: This article originally appeared in the higher education newsletter, The Teaching Professor, which Maryellen Weimer, Ph.D., edits. Although the article is originally for an audience of college professors, the information is valuable for all classrooms. I also think it’s heartening for the secondary school educator to know that those in higher ed. share some of the same challenges that we do. Reprinted with permission. Do you ever reach a point where you’ve just had it with your students – they still aren’t following directions you’ve repeatedly delivered, they’re still talking not so quietly in the back of the room, and too many of them are still turning in work that has been dashed off at the last minute? So what do you do? March into class and more or less let them have it? Well, if you do, you certainly are not alone. In a study of teacher anger, researchers asked students to think of
