When a student walks into the classroom, the student can already feel the energy of the classroom. If the teacher has a warm smile, a welcoming voice and a positive, ready to teach attitude the student will immediately feel comfort and relief. It’s all about how the teacher interacts with there students. A teacher can effect a student’s sense of self confidence negatively or positively that can either make or break the student.

Before you walk into the classroom on your first day of classes, you always peer in to see what the teacher is like. You make assumptions in your head and your mind is racing, wondering whether or not this teacher will be nice or mean, or give a lot of work. As you slowly put one foot in front of the other into the classroom, you hear the teacher talk, she has a nice, soft spoken voice. Your excitement goes from zero to one hundred, you can feel the compassionate and positive vibe she is giving off.

When a teacher is positive towards the students, the students are filled with a lot more energy and drive to do better. When a teacher is positive towards the student and does not show any favoritism or does not cut down any student. The child is more likely to have a better self image of themselves as a student and succeed to higher standards than they normally would.

Negativity is never the way to go, it can cut down someone and make them not reach their potential. Students who are impacted negatively by their teachers are more likely to cut class, do poorly on assignments and tests. I was one of those students, unfortunately, it was junior year in high school and my English teacher despised me. She would do everything in her power to make me feel uncomfortable and not smart. When she would call on me and say the right answer, then she would call on someone else who would say the exact same thing, and congratulate them. I would give my essays to other teachers who would read and be amazed, when I gave my papers to her I would get a “D”, and it would be all marked up for no reason. She even told one of my teachers how unhappy she was with me. Her attitude towards me really impacted my junior year. When a teacher has negative output towards you, you don’t reach your full potential in the class and your performance decreases.

A teacher can affect a student’s sense of self-confidence negatively or positively. That can either make or break the student. A positive attitude can make a student a better person and feel a lot better about themselves. A negative attitude will ruin a students' learning environment and make everything harder for them to succeed. I do not understand why some teachers victimize their students, I thought a teacher was a helper and someone who would want to drive students to do better, not into the ground.