reflection #11

Today I observed my first male teacher classroom. I was excited to observe a male teachers classroom because i have only had experience with females. one thing i found interesting about him was that he did not dress professionally, his uniform consisted of vans, blue jeans, and a stripped polo. he was well kept just not professional. when i think of teaching i think of professional attire. i want to dress up to show respect to my students, and to show my principal that i'm serious about my job. i'm not saying these are not things that this teacher doesn't have, he just must show them in a different way. when i stepped into the classroom i found him about 50lbs lighter and 20 years younger than i imagined. for some reason when i think of male social studies teachers i only have my own experience to work off of. my experiences have been around the age of 50 and about 250-300 lbs. the point to me telling all of this is that he probably has some things to worry about; from his looks i could tell that some girls have crushes on him. it probably makes it even worse that he dresses like the boys do in high school. this is something that we as teachers need to be aware of; male and female alike. as a teacher dressing professionally helps to close that gap between friend and teacher. i'm sure that if i dressed more like the students i could have crushes and the students might think i was there friend over their teacher. but however this was just an observation