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    Here's a powerful revelation for you...
    By christina4062

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    I'm not convinced this is a real post... but, just in case...When I read this last year in my first year of teaching, the gravity and the power of my position was so overwhelming to me when I thought about it in this context. I often think about this before reacting in situations.

    "I have come to a frightening conclusion.
    I am the decisive element in the classroom.
    It is my personal approach that creates the climate.
    It is my daily mood that makes the weather.
    As a teacher I possess tremendous power to make a child's life miserable or joyous.
    I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration.
    I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal.
    In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis
    will be escalated or de-escalated, and a child humanized or de-humanized."

    From Haim Ginott

    Good luck making it right with your student.

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