Laughter shows your students that you accept yourself for who you are, regardless of your mistakes and faults. Their moody and sulky demeanor is displayed in inconsistency, self-pity, and offenses. Negativism, depression, and sulkiness will discredit a teacher, especially a Christian teacher. It demeans the spirit of Christian education, the professional and Christian ethics of the teaching profession, and the spiritual maturity expected of a Christian teacher. Negativism destroys teaching effectiveness.
Negative teachers limit themselves in their effectiveness, both in and out of their classrooms.
It is for these reasons that negativism has no place in the Christian school. A positive spirit should be the way of life for Christian teachers - every day, not just when they feel like it. Any teaching technique that communicates information to students is called a teaching method . A number of factors influence the selection of the best teaching method to use for a particular group of students in a specific learning situation. The teacher does the communicating and the students listen with very little, if any, input.