do your students going over the line of 'like you'

China
August 4, 2009 9:11am CST
So far i m doing a part time teaching in an English Lingual Institute, as the time goes, the class vibe starts to cushion quite a bit, especially when i crack jokes to facilitate their understandings.As many of students are females, adult females, these days i found out some weird smell in my class, one lady was quite hidden before, but these days she started to be quite cooperative to me and even wait me after class. with the talking amounts up, i can feel she is behaving bit of differntly than before, in which case only she is feeling something can make sense. she is older than me, much more mature,supposedly, but she is acting like not a bit of cool as her age. later she not only waited me after class, even asked me out for drinking....the temperature goes hotter....now i m avoiding all of this...have you met in this condition if you were a teacher before....i have to admit i indeed went over the line in my college days. but do you have students doing this to you ?
1 response
• United States
4 Aug 09
Hi, Bill! It happened quite often when I was a beginner, and it's a very difficult situation. I was totally honest in saying that I felt the teacher-student relationship was to be maintained. I, too, had many students older than I in the college classes I taught, and it was indeed awkward. Joanne
• China
5 Aug 09
hahaha...I was hinted from US movies that in many schools the teacher-student relationship is forbidden.and in China, it is also being felt weird. but you cant veto the fact that it's not a zero-chance thing for the students to think the teacher is charming. Back one year then, there was just such a teacher, she is a true mature and attractive woman!!very playful in her body and mind as well! we had lots of chatting over poems and beautiful words.finally when i went out another city for working i told everything i felt about her.i squized my mind for a whole winter vacation to give a gift---an english poem to her and of her. she was so touched and happy!! but luckily we are still maintaining the pure pure teacher-studentship.So Joanne, how did you deal with them, they were you students, it's not easy for you to directly fall out of them, it it
• United States
5 Aug 09
Not easy, but it is absolutely necessary. Surely you don't expect things in the movies to work out as reality does...