A Teaching Handbook For Wiccans And Pagans (2012) - Plot & Excerpts
Often, as teachers, we’re so busy dealing with the little things—the details, the day-to-day issues that arise—that we don’t look at the bigger picture, and we don’t see problems brewing until they’ve taken a firm hold. However, as grandmothers are fond of saying, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. If you know about some of the possible problems you might encounter, you are more likely to be able to avoid or minimize them. The point of this chapter isn’t to frighten you away from teaching but rather to help you recognize and ward off problems before they get out of hand. Your Best Defense: Not Avoiding Conflict The challenges you might encounter as a teacher might be simple, or they might be complex and complicated, but almost all of them will require you to communicate clearly with students about the problem and not avoid conflict. These situations usually require that most dreaded of teacher-student communications: the “difficult conversation,”
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