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Art Teacher: After a few days the art teacher noted that Eleanor was fairly comfortable in school and was happy to talk about the games she was playing. The art teacher noted: 'Eleanor enthusiastically told me the names she had given to all the plastic play people/
After about a week Eleanor began to greet the art teacher when they met in the morning and she usually had some news to report. The art teacher felt that this was a good sign that Eleanor was settling in well.
Should a child love his art teacher? Yes, if "love" is taken to mean a warm, constructive relation in which the child is truly valued and helped to develop his best potentialities. No, if it means a relationship that is intense and meets the emotional needs of the art teacher at the expense of the child. A art teacher's strong personal affection for one child may lead to favoritism, which children keenly resent. Or it may make the child oversensitive to the art teacher's opinion.
We have already suggested that a simple way of doing this is to tell parents that their child's art teacher will stay at the school for, say, half an hour on a certain day each week, or come in early one morning. This is not difficult to manage for most art teachers, provided they can choose the day themselves. It is an important arrangement to make,because it is their own child's art teacher that parents usually want to see, not the deputy head or a liaison art teacher, or someone with 'special responsibility'.
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