| << When students move to new schools, they at times have problems in make new friends and fitting into the school. I personally think that there are not many thing that the teachers can help the students, because it is pretty much up to the students how they get along well with the new students. That is, the teachers cannot help them become friends with each other, because the teachers cannot simply force them to do so. In some other ways, however, there are a couple of things that the teachers can do for the new students in providing them with some opportunities to get to know each other and in assisting the new students mentally. What teachers can do for the new students is to make some chances that a new student can mix with other students. It is hard for some new students who are not very outgoing to talk to and get to know other students without any chances or situation where they have to talk to each other without any hustle. If the new student cannot talk to the other students because of this reason, it is obvious that the student will have problems in making friends and in fitting in the class. To avoid this and to assist this kind of students, the teachers can prepare some opportunities for the new student to get to know other ones through arranging some parties, groups work and such. Under these conditions, the new one is given a chance to make friends with others with much less hustle to find chances to talk to other students. Another thing that the teachers can be help for the new students is to help the new ones mentally so that they can adjust themselves to new surroundings without much stress. It appears that the new students usually feel uneasy when they just move to new schools, wondering if they can get along well with new classmates and feeling lonely without the friends from the previous schools. The teachers seem to be able to play a role in helping them release the stress mentioned above. The teachers can simply listen to what the students feel and talk to them about the schools, which probably make the new ones feel better. This is because, by communicating with the teacher, the new students can feel that they at least have a teacher who can understand and help him or her. In addition to this, when the teacher talk to the new students about the classes and such, the teachers can talk about other students, providing the new students with more information about others. This makes it easier for the students to find some topics to talk to with their new classmates. In short, the teachers can help the new students through making some chances where the new students and others can mix together and through making them feel better with the new environment. Nonetheless it should be noted that what the teachers can do is only limited, and that with whom the new students are other students rather than the teacher, for the teachers cannot control the mind of the students. |